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Spices Board establishes eight crop specific Spices Parks across the country Spices parks set up common processing and value addition facilities for use by the local farmers, traders, exporters, and other stakeholders; provides a large number of job opportunities, both direct and indirect

10-2-2023
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Spices Board has established eight crop specific Spices Parks across the country, the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Smt. Anupriya Patel said in reply to a parliamentary question today.

The details of spices parks are as below:

Name of the Spices Park

State

Spices covered

Chhindwara

Madhya Pradesh

Garlic and Chilli

Guna

Madhya Pradesh

Coriander

Guntur

Andhra Pradesh

Chillies

Jodhpur

Rajasthan

Cumin

Ramganjmandi

Rajasthan

Coriander

Puttady

Kerala

Cardamom and Pepper

Raebareli

Uttar Pradesh

Mint

Sivaganga

Tamil Nadu

Chillies and Turmeric

The objective of the spices park is to set up common processing and value addition facilities including cleaning, sorting, grading, grinding, oil extraction and packaging of spices for use by the local farmers, traders, exporters and other stakeholders. In addition, plots have also been allotted in the Spices Parks at Guna, Jodhpur, Ramganjmandi, Guntur, Raebareli and Sivaganga to the exporters, traders and farmer producer organization for establishment of their own spices processing units. The spices parks are providing large number of job opportunities, both direct and indirect. The details of processing facilities available in the spices parks are as below:

Name of the Spices Park

Details of processing facilities

Chhindwara

Garlic drying / dehydration and chilli extraction

Guna

Cleaning, grading, colour sorting, grinding, packaging facilities for Seed spices particularly coriander

Guntur

Cleaning, sorting, grinding and packaging facilities for Chillies

Jodhpur

Cleaning, grading, colour sorting, grinding, packaging facilities for Seed   spices particularly cumin

Ramganjmandi

Cleaning, grading, colour sorting, grinding, packaging facilities for Seed  spices particularly coriander

Puttady

Cleaning, grading,  grinding, packaging facilities for  cardamom and pepper

Raebareli

Oil extraction facilities for Mint and other herbs

Sivaganga

Cleaning, grading, colour sorting, grinding, packaging facilities for  chillies and turmeric

Presently, no proposals are pending for setting up of additional spices parks.

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