SPICED Scheme to Boost Turmeric & Spice Exports

13 Aug 2025

SPICED Scheme to Boost Turmeric & Spice Exports

The Government of India is promoting the export of spices including turmeric through the Spices Board is implementing the scheme “Sustainability in Spice Sector through Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative Interventions for Export Development (SPICED)”.

India’s Global Turmeric Export Performance

  • India’s Share in World Exports (% by Value):
    • 2020: 66%, 2021: 61%, 2022: 58%, 2023: 62%, 2024: 66%.
  • State-wise Export: Top Performers (2024-25)
    • Maharashtra; West Bengal; Kerala; Gujarat; Tamil Nadu.
  • Top 5 Importers of Indian Turmeric (2024-25)
    • Bangladesh; UAE; USA; Malaysia; Morocco.

About SPICED Scheme

  • Scheme Duration & Budget: Approved for implementation up to FY 2025–26, with an outlay of ₹422.30 crore.
  • Budget Disbursement (FY 2025–26): Approximately ₹130 crore to be distributed among ~45,000 beneficiaries.
  • Transparency: All projects are geo-tagged, and details like fund status, application updates, and beneficiary lists are shared on the Spices Board portal.

Key Components & Objectives

  • Mission Value Addition & Innovation: Encouraging value-added spice products.
  • Mission Clean & Safe Spices: Enhancing post-harvest quality, ensuring food safety, certifications, and sustainable production practices.
  • GI & Organic Promotion: Supporting GI-tagged spices and organic cultivation.
  • Farmer Empowerment: Prioritizing FPOs, FPCs, SHGs, SC/ST groups, NE exporters, and SMEs.
  • Cardamom-Specific Support: Includes replanting, quality planting material, water resource development, micro-irrigation, and weather-based insurance.
  • Technology & Infrastructure: Funding labs, value-addition units, post-harvest machines (e.g. spice polishers, turmeric boilers, mint distillation units).
  • Market Development & Trade Promotion: Buyer–seller meets, international fairs, brand building, promoting GI-tagged spices.
  • Spice Incubation Centres: Fostering startups and MSMEs in the spice sector.
  • Turmeric-Specific Measures: Focus areas include quality evaluation, certifications, training, entrepreneurship, and export market linkage.

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About Spices Board of India

  • Statutory Body: Constituted under Spices Board Act, 1986.
  • Headquarter: Cochin, Kerala
  • Administrative Control: Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • Responsibilities: Overall development of cardamom industry and export promotion of 52 spices.
  • Primary Functions: Development of cardamom, promotion, development, regulation of spice export, quality control for export.
  • Research Activities: Undertakes research on cardamom through Indian Cardamom Research Institute

About Certificate of Registration as Exporter of Spices (CRES)

  • It is a certificate issued by the Spices Board of India that authenticates that an exporter of spices is registered with the government-authorised regulatory agency

Read More About: Turmeric & Turmeric Board of India

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