**5. Indian spice scenario**

The diversity of spices has different origins therefore their use and taste are famous in the world. The Mediterranean region, South Europe and Asia have historically recorded lands from where many types of spices originate and distributed in many countries. At present spices are growing in many countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam. Among these countries, India is the leading spice-producing country with a 70% contribution of spices in the world's production and retaining a large quantity of its supply for national consumption, that's why India is known as the 'land of spices' [25, 35, 36].

In India, spices are cultivated in the regions of Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Among them, Kerala is the leading state in the production of black pepper and small cardamom, whereas Andhra Pradesh is the leading producer of chilies, turmeric, and several spice seeds, and Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are famous for ginger production. Rajasthan and Gujarat are famous seed spices producing states that's why they are known as the seed spices bowl of India. The area and production of spices in


#### **Table 3.**

*Area and production of Indian spices [37].*

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**Figure 3.** *Area and production of Indian spices chart.*

2018–2019 was 4067Mha and production 9500MT and in 2020–2021 both slightly increase by area of 4528 Mha and production of 10679MT, as given in the **Table 3** and area & production for each spices are shown in **Figure 3** [25, 35, 37, 38].
