Now let us talk in detail about black pepper cultivation in the following write-up. Commercial cultivation of black pepper is very much successful and one can obtain decent profits in growing black pepper with proper farm management practices. These end products (pepper oil and pepper spirit) are being used in many Ayurvedic medicines, herbal treatments and beauty products. Pepper spirit and pepper oil is extracted from dried peppercorn through crushing process. At this stage, it is being called as “black peppercorn”. The pepper fruits are then dried in the sun for couple of days to make the pepper seed to shrink and darken into a thin, wrinkled black layer. Apart from using as a spice, black pepper also used in traditional medicine since centuries.īlack Pepper Production stages include harvesting the unripe fruits (still in green stage) of the pepper vine and these fruits are boiled in hot water to clean the pepper fruits and make them ready for drying.

Vietnam is top producer of black pepper in the world and Kerala is top production state in India which contributes 90% of black pepper production in the country. Black pepper is considered as a black gold in India as it contributes about 60 to 65% of total export earnings from all spices. Once these fruits are dried, these are called as “peppercorn”. Basically black pepper is grown for its fruit, these fruits are dried to make ground pepper and used as a spice and seasoning.

Black pepper is being used as a spice and seasoning in most of the cuisines in the world. Black pepper is indigenous to south India (Western Ghats).

Black pepper is a climbing evergreen plant (perennial climbing vine) and grows to a height of 30 feet and above. Introduction to Black Pepper Cultivation:- Black pepper is one of the popular spices known as ” king of spices”.

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