{"id":22793,"date":"2025-02-25T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22793"},"modified":"2025-04-06T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:35:57","slug":"spices-board-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spices-board-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Spices Board India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spices Board Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Spices Board is working with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and other regulatory agencies to bring in more regulations for the industry.<\/p>\n<h2>About Spices Board<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>statutory body <\/strong>constituted on 26th February 1987 under the <strong>Spices Board Act 1986, <\/strong>with the merger of the erstwhile Cardamom Board (1968) and Spices Export Promotion Council (1960).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the five Commodity Boards functioning <strong>under the Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is responsible for the overall development of the cardamom industry and export promotion of 52 spices listed in the schedule of the Spices Board Act, 1986.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The primary function of the Board includes the<strong> development of <\/strong>small and large <strong>cardamom<\/strong>, <strong>promotion, development, regulation of export of spices,<\/strong> and <strong>control on the quality<\/strong> of spices for export.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Board is an international link between the Indian exporters and the importers abroad.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>undertakes research activities<\/strong> on cardamom (small &amp; large) under the Indian Cardamom Research Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Spices Board FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is the headquarters of the Spices Board of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kochi, Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which state is called the land of spices?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kerala is known as the land of spices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which is the king of spices?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Black Pepper is considered the &#8216;king of spices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/working-with-fssai-other-bodies-to-regulate-spice-industry-spices-board\/article69259759.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spices Board is a statutory body constituted on 26th February 1987 under the Spices Board Act 1986<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}