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Testing of chillies done before export, Govt may import pulses, LS told

Tuesday, 20 March, 2012, 08 : 00 AM [IST]

Our Bureau, New Delhi

The major varieties of chilli being exported are sannam, teja, byadagi, mundu, Kashmiri chilli etc. The details of exports of chillies during the last three years, year-wise and country-wise is enclosed as annexure. This information was given by minister of state for commerce and industry Jyotiraditya Scindia in a written reply to a question raised in Lok Sabha on Monday.

To avoid the export rejection, Spices Board has been implementing pre-shipment mandatory sampling and testing of chilli and chilli products for Sudan dye I, II, III, IV, Aflatoxin and other toxic elements from October 2003 before exports to European Union (EU). Apart from EU, the chilli and chilli products for export to other destinations including USA, South Africa and Japan are also now within the mandatory pre-shipment quality check. As such only consignments of chilli / chilli products which are cleared by Spices Board are allowed to be exported to various international markets. As a consequential effect of the preventive action, 2,253 consignments have been detained by the Spices Board from export during last three years, after testing a total of 77,409 consignment samples for chilli and chilli products.

Spices Board is also imparting training programmes for chilli-growers in different producing states for pursuing Good Agricultural Practice so as to reduce the level of Aflatoxin from various levels of harvesting / processing. Similar training programmes are conducted for traders / exporters also for Good Manufacturing Practices such as proper storage and hygienic transportation to avoid moisture and to reduce the level of Aflatoxin. This is an on ongoing process, which helps the farmers, traders and processors to export consignments without the issue of Aflatoxin.


MAJOR COUNTRY WISE EXPORT OF CHILLI FROM INDIA
	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11(E)
COUNTRY	QTY	VALUE	QTY	VALUE	QTY	VALUE
	(MT)	(Rs LAKHS)	(MT)	(Rs LAKHS)	(MT)	(Rs LAKHS)
MALAYSIA	40615	26072.08	45545	32303.70	48248	35641.96
SRI LANKA	37792	19627.97	34788	19441.63	34072	19728.61
BANGLADESH	1923	1023.32	28173	15157.92	32742	18207.91
USA	15793	12881.60	17744	15137.32	17362	13801.24
PAKISTAN	22376	10192.04	160	80.52	25712	13491.59
UAE	18813	7006.45	23232	8997.80	20703	8478.70
MEXICO	1363	899.40	2256	1828.44	8500	7627.51
INDONESIA	10531	5148.77	10267	5563.64	10242	6035.16
CHINA	382	315.97	1769	1284.22	6771	4699.28
UK	3045	2646.64	3205	3271.42	3612	3744.56
VIETNAM	422	231.60	4036	3142.67	3383	2399.94
THAILAND	9190	5434.60	7605	5110.05	2601	1850.79
SOUTH AFRICA	2815	1726.44	2469	1788.83	2469	1843.59
SAUDI ARABIA	1921	1306.87	1664	1283.19	1726	1365.46
SINGAPORE	1857	1277.76	1546	1128.00	1745	1350.55
CANADA	830	695.41	918	784.49	1087	1023.14
EGYPT (ARE)	2823	1830.66	3160	2216.09	1465	938.82
AUSTRALIA	708	677.93	909	942.29	859	887.87
NEPAL	3225	1228.41	4568	2060.15	2197	860.97
ITALY	1002	991.09	579	572.19	793	847.28
NETHERLANDS	262	243.57	243	248.50	682	677.51
KUWAIT	693	441.62	429	414.35	827	558.19
RUSSIA	1266	592.76	1178	599.88	1298	538.36
OMAN	387	335.85	654	514.73	623	520.52
FRANCE	457	561.79	429	494.17	421	454.41
BRAZIL	280	177.49	422	293.98	634	454.11
GERMANY	296	286.24	203	221.35	413	444.40
QATAR	876	420.48	598	373.46	598	409.63
BAHRAIN	440	294.47	643	333.58	555	322.61
JAPAN	163	276.95	37	99.97	209	245.79
TOTAL (Including others)	188000	108094.92	204000	129172.81	240000	153553.96

Import of Pulses

Government undertakes to import pulses to bridge the gap between demand and domestic supply. Any decision to import in the current year will be taken after seeing the trend of arrivals of Rabi harvest in the mandis.

Imports are currently under zero duty (till March 31, 2012). Pulses are also imported by PSUs for distribution to states under the PDS which is valid till March 31, 2012.