Pepper (pepper nigrum) is the grown and dried fruit of a bindweed which has become the most important spice all over the world since year 600 b.C. Even though the principal producers, not only of black and white pepper but spices in general, are: India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc., Ecuador offers and meets with all the environmental requirements needed for proper and normal development of spices. Thanks to our stable weather we are able to obtain a pepper of high quality as well as a standard size grain.

In spite there are records of pepper-planting activity in Ecuador from approximately 20 years, it has been developing at a very slow pace. This was caused due to the little demand and local consumption of this spice, which is around 100,000 Kg/year, but most of all due to the lack of marketing and impulse to encourage the planting of pepper-vines. There has not been financial resources nor the governmental support needed to promote and let the world market know the excellent quality of the Ecuadorian pepper.

After a lot of marketing efforts we’ve been able to introduce our pepper into the market of the major consuming countries, such as USA, France, The Netherlands, Germany, among others countries of the European Community; We also supply countries of the Andean Community, such as Peru, ,Chile, Panama and Colombia.