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The 5th Meeting of the IPC Committee on Marketing
Kochi, India. The 5th Meeting of IPC Committee on Marketing was held on 11 July 2019 in Kochi, India. This annual Meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India and Spices Board Govt. of India in collaboration with the International Pepper Community at the Empress Hotel Kochi. This one-day meeting which was officiated by Mr. M Saravanan, Director Plantation of Department of Commerce, was attended not only by trading experts from IPC member countries but it was also attended by Indian pepper industry like AISEF (All Indian Spices Exporter Forums and many other).
The continuous unfavorable price of pepper and other marketing issues were intensively discussed by the members of the Committee on Marketing. The Executive Director of IPC, Mrs. Hoang Thi Lien elaborated that as the global supply for pepper estimated to reach over 500 KMT, she suggested all pepper stakeholders to start initiating programme to promote more consumption in producing as well as consuming countries by advertising innovative benefits of pepper for the end consumer (i.e. health usage of pepper)
Furthermore, during the Meeting Mrs. Lien reminded the Committee on the Market Linkage Function of the IPC Farmers App. She also reminded that market linkage is a function that would help farmers to market their products. Therefore, Farmers App's implementation partners in respective countries such as AISEF in India should do more training activities to farmers. She further stated that as implementation partners for the IPC Farmers App India, AISEF has greatly supported IPC. Mr. Rajiv Palicha, Chairman of AISEF, stated that AISEF has conducted various training programme on IPC Farmers App for Indian Farmers and would continue the farmers training programme in the future.
As the conclusion of the Meeting, participants of the Meeting were invited to visit Kancor Mane's facility for value-added product of pepper.
Previous Publications
- Pepper/Spice Exhibition at Kandy, Sri Lanka, 30th Oct. - 2nd Nov. 2017
- 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.