Description
Chillie is used as an essential condiment in foods for its pungency
and red colour. Besides these properties chillie is a rich source
of vitamin a, c, e and p and has certain medicinal properties. It
is used in homeopathy. A non-conventional use of chillie is in the
self-defence sprays which is gaining popularity in USA.
The world market for chillies
Chillies of red pepper belongs to the genus capsicum which is a
native of tropical America. It was introduced into India by the
portuguese during the *6th century. India has emerged today as the
foremost producer and exporter of chillies contributing to almost
one fourth of the world production. Besides India, other major
producers and exporters of chillies are China, Pakistan, Morocco,
Mexico and Turkey.
Export of chillies from India during the last four years has been
showing an encouraging trend though fluctuation occur very often.
Indian chillies are exported mainly to srilanka, USA, Canada, uk,
saudi arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and Germany. It is exported in
different forms: fresh chillies, stalk less chillies, green
chillies, chilli powder and also as oleoresin.
The potential for increasing exports of whole chillies, chilli
powder and crushed chillies in consumer packs is very high,
Country wise percentage of worldwide chillies exports
(capsicum)
* India *5% *China *4% *Spain *7% *Mexico 8% *Pakistan 7. 2%
*Morocco 7% *Turkey 4. 5%
