{"id":30657,"date":"2025-03-08T07:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30657"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:41:58","slug":"world-spice-organisation-wso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-spice-organisation-wso\/","title":{"rendered":"World Spice Organisation (WSO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World Spice Organisation Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Chairman of the World Spice Organisation (WSO) recently stated that India holds a meager 0.7% share in the global seasoning market, valued at $14 billion in 2024, compared to China\u2019s 12% and the U.S.A.\u2019s 11%.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Spice Organisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a<strong> not-for-profit organisation<\/strong> established in <strong>2011 in Kochi,<\/strong> Kerala, the <strong>spice capital of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is registered under the Travancore Cochin Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Societies Act, 1956.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: Facilitating the spice industry in dealing with issues of <strong>\u201cFood Safety &amp; Sustainability\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>WSO seeks to achieve its objectives by involving all its stakeholders\u2014the general public, the industry, academia, and the end-users.<\/li>\n<li>WSO <strong>undertakes social responsibility projects<\/strong> beneficial for the industry.<\/li>\n<li>WSO is <strong>involved in initiatives promoting sustainability and biodiversity<\/strong> in <strong>collaboration with<\/strong> prominent national and international <strong>organizations like Spices Board <\/strong>India, <strong>Indian Institute of Spice Research (IISR), <\/strong>Rainforest Alliance, GIZ (Germany), and IDH &#8211; The Sustainable Trade Initiative (Netherlands).<\/li>\n<li>WSO also<strong> interacts with global spice associations<\/strong> like the American Spice Trade Association (ASTA), European Spice Association (ESA), International Pepper Community (IPC), etc <strong>to resolve issues <\/strong>facing the spice industry.<\/li>\n<li>WSO <strong>takes part in <\/strong>the various<strong> national and international standard-setting processespertaining to spices,<\/strong> such as <strong>FSSAI, BIS, ISO, and Codex,<\/strong> in order to ensure that the interests of the industry are considered while setting the standards.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>technical partner of the All India Spices Exporters Forum (AISEF).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Spice Organisation FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is World spice Organization headquarters?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kochi, Kerala<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which ministry is the Spices Board under?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is the Spice Board a statutory body?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, the Spices Board of India is a statutory body established under the Spices Board Act, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/indias-share-in-global-seasoning-market-a-paltry-07-despite-being-worlds-largest-producer-wso\/article69286921.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Spice Organisation (WSO) is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2011 in Kochi, Kerala, the spice capital of India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30657","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\/30657","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=30657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}