Spices Board with a view to promote the export of spices and spice products, has been organizing Buyer Seller Meets (BSM), so as to provide a common platform for the Buyers and Sellers of the spice industry, to interact directly and establish effective business linkages. BSMs offer a win-win situation to both the growers and exporters wherein the growers get a market for their produce along with remunerative returns, whereas the exporters find it beneficial in terms of establishing long term backward linkages for competitive sourcing of quality spices as well as to strengthen trade tie ups with leading spice importers across the world. The International Buyer Seller Meets (IBSM) are organized in association with the Indian Missions in the respective countries, with the active participation of trade support institutions, regulatory bodies etc of the respective country. The details of BSMs are as below:

Spices Board, so as to attract, motivate and equip the progressive stakeholders to enter into the spices business, has been organizing Entrepreneurship Development Training Programmes (EDP), involving participants from across India. The main purpose of the programme is to sensitize and educate the participants on various aspects of the spice export sector, including export documentation & procedure, quality and safety standards, regulatory requirements for exports, international marketing, export logistics, analyzing export data and trends, etc. The details of the EDP proposed during the FY is as follows: