ABSTRACT
In 1951, 70 per cent of world’s pepper cultivation was concentrated in India, and this has gone down to 46 per cent by 1991. Similarly India was contributing 66 per cent of the world’s production in 1951, but by 1991 India’s share was only 30 per cent. This was reflected in exports too. The share of India in the global pepper market has come down from 56 per cent to 23 per cent during the same period. At the same time, pepper production in other countries registered remarkable increase, but again the 1990’s are witnessing alarming fall in production in many major producing countries.
