Growth and Variability in Major Fruit Spice Cultivation and Export from India

Abstract

Spices export constitutes an important share in the agricultural export of India, standing at number one position for the export of several spices including chillies, cardamom cumin etc. In the same context an analysis was carried out in the present study to analyse the growth rate of area, production, yield as well as the export quantity and value of spices from India during the period between 2018 to 2022. The analytical tools used for the study included average annual growth rate and coefficient of variation. The findings revealed that among the considered fruit spices pepper had the highest area under cultivation while Chillies had the highest production. The growth rate analysis revealed that chillies had the highest growth in area, while small cardamom had the highest growth rate in production and yield over the last five years. Small cardamom also exhibited the highest growth in both export quantity and value, though its exports also showed the highest instability.