{"id":15889,"date":"2023-02-20T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:56:08","slug":"telanganas-teja-chilli","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/telanganas-teja-chilli","title":{"rendered":"Telangana\u2019s Teja Chilli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burgeoning demand for the popular Teja variety of red chilli, is proving to be a boon for the Khammam Agriculture Market, housing Telangana\u2019s second largest chilli market yard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Teja chilli:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Khammam district, the largest producer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Teja variety of red chilli, is the leading exporter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known not only for its culinary purpose to spice up various delicacies but also as a <\/span><b>main ingredient<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in making<\/span><b> pepper spray.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>paste extracted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the pungent fruit is also in demand for its use as a <\/span><b>protective layer beneath ships<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in some of the Asian countries,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>huge demand for oleoresin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a natural chilli extract, is mainly driving the export of the Teja variety of red chilli from Khammam district to various spice processing industries in several Asian countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/teja-variety-of-red-chilli-high-in-demand-abroad\/article66529515.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The burgeoning demand for the popular Teja variety of red chilli, is proving to be a boon for the Khammam Agriculture Market, housing Telangana\u2019s second largest chilli market yard.\u00a0 About Teja chilli: Khammam district, the largest producer of the Teja variety of red chilli, is the leading exporter. It is known not only for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/telanganas-teja-chilli\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telangana\u2019s Teja Chilli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[904,905,903],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/15889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/15889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}