Spices Board Drives Global Turmeric Reach with Quality and Market Linkage Programs

Government of India through Spices Board is implementing the scheme “Sustainability in Spice Sector through Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative Interventions for Export Development (SPICED)” under which various programs are undertaken to promote the export of spices including turmeric. These inter-alia include implementation of food safety and quality assurance mechanisms / certifications, postharvest quality upgradation, support for processing and value addition, organizing training 2 programme for stakeholders of turmeric aimed at quality improvement and entrepreneurship development; quality evaluation of export consignments of turmeric through quality evaluation laboratories to ensure compliance with quality specifications of importing countries and organization of Buyer Seller meets (domestic and international) to establish direct market linkage between farmers/farmer groups, exporters/processors and international buyers.

Further, in order to harness the potential of turmeric and turmeric products, the “National Turmeric Board” was constituted vide notification dated 04.10.2023 with the following objectives:-

i. Promote new product development and value addition in turmeric;

ii. Promote awareness and consumption of turmeric and turmeric products in international markets;

iii. Facilitate market research in potential international markets for development of value- added turmeric products;

iv. Facilitate creation and improvement of infrastructure and logistics for exports of turmeric and turmeric products;

v. Encourage building of resilient and sustainable supply chains for turmeric and turmeric products by strengthening forward and backward linkages;

vi. Promote compliance with quality and safety standards across the supply chain of turmeric;

vii. Promote capacity building and skill development of turmeric growers for value addition activities;

viii. Strengthen documentation of traditional knowledge related to use of turmeric and its applications;

ix. Encourage studies, clinical trials and research on medicinal, health and wellness enhancing properties of turmeric; and

x. Any other objective as may be determined by the Central Government for promotion and development of the turmeric sector.

The details of India’s contribution in the world exports of turmeric since 2020 is provided in Annexure-I.

The volume of turmeric exports from India since 2020 is provided in Annexure -II.

The details of revenue generated from exports of turmeric, state-wise from FY 2020- 21 to FY 2024-25 is provided in Annexure-III.

The top five importers of Indian turmeric since 2020 are Bangladesh, UAE, USA, Malaysia and Morocco. The volume of turmeric exported to them for the period from 2020- 21 to 2024-25 is provided in Annexure-IV.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Shri Jitin Prasada, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

Annexure-I

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3848 for answer on 12.08.2025

INDIA’S CONTRIBUTION IN THE WORLD EXPORTS OF TURMERIC (VALUE IN MILLION US$)
YEAR	INDIA	WORLD	INDIA'S SHARE
2020	232.38	349.58	66%
2021	225.54	367.70	61%
2022	214.82	373.24	58%
2023	212.69	342.67	62%
2024	333.25	502.74	66%
Source: Spices Board

Annexure-II

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3848 for answer on 12.08.2025

EXPORT OF TURMERIC FROM INDIA
Year QTY	Year QTY (MT)
2020-21	183,868
2021-22	152,758
2022-23	170,085
2023-24	162,019
2024-25	176,325
Source: Spices Board

Annexure-III

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3848 for answer on 12.08.2025

STATE WISE EXPORT OF TURMERIC ( THROUGH MAJOR PORTS IN THE STATE)
	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25
State	Value (Mln $)	Value (Mln $)	Value (Mln $)	Value (Mln $)	Value (Mln $)
MAHARASHTRA	78.21	92.41	93.96	92.23	155.35
WEST BENGAL	40.10	26.24	32.36	39.50	48.54
KERALA	34.32	30.62	31.01	35.07	46.77
GUJARAT	17.56	16.48	17.95	20.06	37.16
TAMIL NADU	21.84	23.23	19.90	26.53	34.29
KARNATAKA	27.19	8.57	3.42	2.43	5.68
RAJASTHAN	1.86	2.01	1.66	2.44	3.53
TELANGANA	2.57	1.13	1.56	1.74	2.64
ANDHRA PRADESH	2.31	0.51	1.16	1.96	2.19
BIHAR	2.55	2.72	1.52	1.76	2.13
MADHYA PRADESH	1.39	1.65	1.22	1.15	1.34
UTTAR PRADESH	1.20	0.92	0.56	0.82	0.92
DELHI	0.53	0.46	0.37	0.44	0.63
HARYANA	0.64	0.76	0.66	0.29	0.17
TOTAL	232.41	205.87	207.45	226.58	341.54

Source: Spices Board

Annexure-IV

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3848 for answer on 12.08.2025

YEAR WISE EXPORTS OF TURMERIC TO TOP FIVE IMPORTERS OF INDIAN TURMERIC
	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25
Country	Qty	Qty	Qty	Qty	Qty
BANGLADESH	51308.20	25256.46	34523.90	37577.13	34073.12
U.A.E	13795.79	22500.41	18980.25	17316.11	25135.96
U.S.A	10693.83	8266.66	7009.43	8602.79	8536.35
MALAYSIA	7987.70	8058.84	6829.46	8465.90	8825.86
MOROCCO	8906.01	9505.43	10663.63	7826.43	9390.32

Source: Spices Board

SPICED scheme expands turmeric export promotion through quality assurance, processing support and market linkages for exporters. The SPICED scheme expands turmeric export promotion through targeted measures: implementing food safety and quality certification, post harvest quality upgradation, processing and value addition support, training and entrepreneurship programmes, laboratory quality evaluation of consignments to meet importing country specifications, and organization of Buyer Seller Meets to establish direct market linkages between growers, processors and international buyers; the National Turmeric Board was constituted to promote product development, market research, export infrastructure, supply chain resilience and compliance with quality and safety standards.