How many kilograms of spices does India export each year?

Food hard Data from 2023

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Answer in tons. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

1,500,000 tons

Roughly 1.5M.

India exports around 1.5 million tonnes of spices a year, roughly half of all spices traded globally. The spice trade is the reason European powers went looking for sea routes to Asia in the first place.

Where this number comes from

Source Spices Board of India
Figure refers to 2023
Last checked
Unit tons

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