The current estimated share of organic foods in these countries is approximately 1 to 1.5 per cent. Worldwide, food trends are changing with a marked health orientation. Since organic foods are free from chemical contaminants, the demand for these products should steadily increase in the new millennium. 100 of them are from Asia and Africa. Since spices form part of many of these medicines, the demand for organically produced spices should grow.
Organic cultivation is nothing new to India.
The country has always been practising the traditional ways of using indigenous technologies and inputs mostly in line with modern organic farming principles. The per capita consumption of fertilizers and pesticides in India is far below that of developed countries. Which means, it is very easy for Indian farmers to embrase organic spice farming in its true sense. Spice Board of India has taken a major initiative in promoting the production and export of organic spices in a big way. The Indian Initiative Export of organic spices from India has started in right earnest.