Netherlands King and Queen visit Nedspice's Kochi office

   Royal visit at Nedspice's office 

located at Mattancherry, Kochi

Courtesy: Nedspice 

Mattancherry-based Nedspice Processing India, established in 1991, hogged the limelight when His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visited the office on 17th of October 2019. The event was jointly hosted by the Royal House of the Netherlands and the Dutch Embassy.

Netherlands-headquartered Nedspice Group is one of the leading global companies in processing spices, herbs and dehydrated vegetables sector. The group operates processing factories in India, Vietnam and the Netherlands. It has strong distribution network in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States of America.

On the occasion, Nedspice hosted a round-table discussion on Climate Resilient Agriculture. Kerala Minister of Agriculture V. S. Sunil Kumar, Agriculture Production Commissioner Devendra Kumar Singh and Mr. Loek Hermans, business delegation leader former Minister of Education in the Netherlands, subject matter experts and government policy makers participated. 

The discussion was moderated by Hanneke Schuiling, Director General for Foreign Economic Relations, and focused around four United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, namely Zero Hunger, Good Health & Wellbeing, Clean Water & Sanitation and Responsible Consumption & Production.

The Royal visit was part of the major Dutch trade mission to India from 13-18 October 2019 scheduled in parallel with a state visit. The topics of the mission centered around the food- water-health nexus.

Royal Couple with the Nedspice team 

based in Mattancherry

Nedspice has been developing more sustainable supply chains for spices, its backward integration to farmers (Nedspice Farmers Partnership Programme) and innovations in production, for example the state-of-the-art processing facility that is being set up in Gujarat, which will allow for a much more sustainable production of dehydrated vegetables than conventional methods.

Nedspice delivers around 15,000 tons of spices, herbs and dehydrated vegetables to global customers annually.