India’s Spices Production
The following table shows India’s major spices Production in the Year 2008-09
- The largest produced spice in India is Chillies, followed by Turmeric and Garlic.
- India is the largest producer of Red Dry chilly in the world.
- India is second largest producer of Garlic in the world after china.
Spice | Area | Production |
Chillies | 779 | 1270 |
Garlic | 166 | 831 |
Turmeric | 181 | 821 |
Ginger | 109 | 380 |
Coriander | 397 | 242 |
Tamarind | 55 | 178 |
Cumin | 429 | 173 |
Fenugreek | 68 | 76 |
fennel | 47 | 64 |
Pepper | 238 | 47 |
Ajwan | 20 | 16 |
Values 000MT, 000HT |
- Andhra Pradesh is India’s largest spice producing state.
- Rajasthan is second largest spice producing state.
- Rajasthan is largest producer of Red Chillies.
- Jammu & Kashmir is India’s largest nut producing state with 88.4% share in the country.
- Next largest nut producing state is Uttarakhand which accounts for 9.44% nuts in India. Himachal Pradesh accounts for 2.1% production of Nuts in India.
Bharat Singh Negi
February 4, 2014 at 2:03 pmI want to promot spice agriculture in uttarakhand like (red chillies , garlic , turmeric , gingar ) i things uttarakhand become the largest producing state in spice