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Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry

07-May-2012 15:21 IST

Export of Spices

The details of spices export is given below:

India is facing stiff price competition from other major spices producing countries like Vietnam, Guatemala, China etc. in the export of different spices.  In the case of Pepper, being the largest producer and having higher productivity, Vietnam is in a position to offer their produce at a lower price as compared with Indian pepper. Similarly for Cardamom, being the largest producer and having negligible domestic consumption, Guatemala is selling their produce at a lower price. China also now offers Chilli at a lower price than the Indian produce.

Government has approved establishment of Spice Parks to establish common infrastructure facilities in the major spices growing centres for cleaning, processing, colour sorting, grading & packing facilities etc, primarily to empower the spice farmers through value addition and quality improvement of spices. At present two spice parks viz. Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh and Puttadi in Idukki district of Kerala have started functioning. Spice Park at Jodhpur in Rajasthan has been inaugurated on 7.4.2012.

 Beside the Quality Evaluation Laboratory already functioning in Head Office of Spices Board, Cochin, Government has approved establishment of seven Regional Quality Evaluation Lab-cum-Training centre in major Port cities of the country for testing and evaluating the quality of Spices being exported from the Country at Mumbai (Maharashtra), Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Chennai and Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), New Delhi, Kandla(Gujarat) and Kolkata(West Bengal).

This information was given by Shri Jyotiradiya M. Scindia,  Minister of State for Commerce & Industry   in written reply to a question in  Lok    Sabha today.

DS/GK