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Chief Guest Hon. Basil Rajapaksha inaugurated the 40th Session of IPC
(Colombo, 30/10/2012) The 40th Session and Meetings of International Pepper Community was officially inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Honorable Basil Rajapaksha, Minister of Economic Development, Government of Sri Lanka.
Mr. Reginald Cooray, Minister for Minor Export Crop Promotion, Mr. Vajira Narampanawa, Chairman of IPC/Secretary to the Ministry of Minor Export Crop Promotion, Mr. S. Kannan, Executive Director of the International Pepper Community, Mr. WDL Gunaratne, Director General Department of Export Agriculture and Other senior government officers and trade representatives from all the producing and major consuming countries attended the inaugural Session took place on 30th October morning.
Chief Guest Hon. Basil Rajapaksha (3rd from left),
Hon. Minister of Minor Export Crops Promotion, Mr. Reginald Cooray (2nd from left),
Mr. Vajira Narampanawa, Chairman of IPC/Secretary to the Ministry of Minor Export Crop Prommotion (1st left)
and Mr. S. Kannan, Exec. Director of IPC (4th from left)
The 40th Session of IPC is being hosted by the Ministry of Minor Export Crop Promotion and is jointly organized by the Department of Export Agriculture, Spice Council and IPC Jakarta. More than 380 delegates including around 200 foreign delegates from 24 countries are participating at this year Session being held in Mount Lavinia Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka from 30th October till 2 Nov. 2012.
Sri Lanka is joined IPC as full member in 1998 and the 40th Session is the 3rd IPC Meetings hosted by the Sri Lanka in addition to the two previious Session had in 1998 (Colombo) and 2006 (Kandy)
Sri Lanka produced on average about 16,000 tons of pepper. The country also produces other spices for exports including Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, Vanilla etc. (IO/IPC)
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- MPB Central Lab, Kuching, to host IPC Quality Training programme in September 2017
- Executive Director of the International Pepper Community to visit Cambodia in June 2017
- Sri Lanka to host the 45th Annual Session of the IPC during 30th Oct - 2nd Nov. 2017
- Sri Lanka's pepper now becomes one of most important spice crops for export after Cinnamon - Bandula Wickramarachchi
- Members to continue organizing the Pepper Day in 2017
- IPC revises Standard Specifications for Pepper and Pepper Products
- Iman Pambagyo, Director General seeks IPC member countries to strengthen collaborative works in responding to the quality related issues
- IPC GMP Book to be printed in different language of IPC member countries
- IPC Inter-lab Proficiency Testing Programme
- IPC Book on Good Manufacturing Practices for Pepper (P. nigrum L.) was launched
- The IPC Special Session held on 09th - 10th January 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Sri Lanka has confirmed to host the 45th Annual Session and other Meetings of the International Pepper Community in Kandy.
- Mrs. Mariam Ilias named as the Liaison Officer of Malaysia to IPC
- Lampung now has another modern pepper / spice processing unit
- 1st Forum Vietnam Pepper Outlook 2016 organized successfully in Phu Quoc
- VPA to organize 1st Forum Vietnam Pepper Outlook from 17th-19th November 2016
- IPC Executive Director visited Davao, Philippines and met Governor Claude Bautista
- ED attended the 47th APCC COCOTECH
- Dr. Agus Wahyudi named as Director of Spices and Seasonal Crops of the Agriculture Ministry of Indonesia
- Mr. Eng. BANDULA Wickramaarachchi Secretary of Ministry of Primary Industries of Sri Lanka, is the Chairman of IPC for 2016/2017
- Governor Bautista and other officials of Philippines visited Indonesia and Vietnam
- Dato Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom named as new Chairman and Dr. Harry Entebang as new Director General of Malaysian Pepper Board
- IPC announced the winners of the IPC Award Winners for the year 2015
- Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia, urged IPC to strengthen the cooperation among the members on five strategic important issues.