Botanical Name:- Piper nigrum L. / Family:- Piperaceae / Commercial Part:- Fruit

Black pepper, commonly called the King of spices or even Black gold, is the most germane and commonly used spice, which occupies an exclusive and unique position in the world. In India, Kerala is the native place of black pepper, contributing most of the country’s area under cultivation and production for the crop. Black pepper is one of the healthiest spices relative to other seasonings. Swarex Export’s R&d about surging usage of black pepper in bakery and confectionery products such as cakes, chocolates, and snacks is proliferating the global demand of the black pepper market. For instance, black pepper is used in rosemary bread, garlic bread and other bakery products. Swarex Export is also focusing on new product innovations such as pepper spray, essential oils and fragrances. They are also focusing on innovative packaging of black pepper powder as it has capacity to fetch higher prices. Swarex Export is becoming a key supplier of Raw Black pepper to fulfil the requirement of the present worldwide market.

DESCRIPTION

Black Pepper is the dried mature berry of Piper nigrum, a climbing, perennial shrub mostly found in hot, moist region of Southern India. Under cultivation pepper vines are trailed over support as columns, 5-6 mtr tall, 1-2 meter diameter. The climbing woody stems have swollen nods with clinging roots at each node, which helps in anchoring the vine to the support trees (standards). It has straight upward growing main stem and have lateral shoots from the axils of the leaves having shorter inter nodes without adventitious roots. In such branches the terminal buds get modified into an inflorescence (spike) and the auxiliary buds continue further growth.