India's Spice Export Basket by Value FY2025-26
How India's US$4,430.90 million spice export earnings split across chilli, cumin, oleoresins, cardamom and more in FY2025-26.
Export basket by value, FY2025-26
The table below is the value share of each category in India's spice exports for FY2025-26 (provisional). Chilli alone is more than a quarter of every export dollar, and the top three categories together are just over half the basket.
| Category | Share of export value |
|---|---|
| Chilli | 27% |
| Cumin | 12% |
| Spice oils & oleoresins | 12% |
| Small cardamom | 9% |
| Mint products | 8% |
| Turmeric | 7% |
| Curry powder / paste | 6% |
| Ginger | 3% |
| Pepper | 3% |
| Coriander | 2% |
What the mix tells a buyer
- Whole spices (chilli, cumin, turmeric, cardamom, pepper) still carry the basket, so origin grade specs matter more than brand.
- Value-added lines (spice oils & oleoresins at 12%, curry powder / paste at 6%, mint products at 8%) show India moving past raw commodity supply.
- Small cardamom at 9% is auction-priced, so its share moves with price as much as volume.
Total basket size, FY2025-26
India exported 17.34 lakh tonnes of spices worth US$4,430.90 million in FY2025-26, down roughly 4% by volume and 6% in USD terms against FY2024-25 (17.99 lakh tonnes, US$4,722.65 million).
Frequently asked
What is India's largest spice export by value?
Chilli, at 27% of export value in FY2025-26, is the single largest category in the Spices Board basket, ahead of cumin and spice oils & oleoresins at 12% each.
How much did India earn from spice exports in FY2025-26?
US$4,430.90 million on 17.34 lakh tonnes (provisional), down about 6% in USD from FY2024-25.
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- Absolute USD per category
- The Spices Board share figures are percentages of value; the underlying per-category USD totals for FY2025-26 are not published in the same release, so we state shares only.
- Oil vs oleoresin split
- "Spice oils & oleoresins" is reported as one line; the split between essential oils and oleoresins is not broken out in this dataset.
Reviewed 16 July 2026.
Sources
- Spices Board of India — Export statistics· Tier 1, retrieved 2026-07-16