Stakeholders: GS1 Officials, Spice Board’s Officials, Farmers, Traders, Exporters, Processors

Date of launch: 28th July 2015

Brief background: Spices Board (Ministry of Commerce, Government of India) together with GS1, is planning to set up an electronic platform for implementing sustainability, traceability and e-commerce for the farmers.

It is a Pilot project for a limited number of farmers, aggregators and buyers for Dry Chilli(First Year) & Turmeric(Second Year). This pilot shall be carried out in two different sub-districts in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh.

Based on the learnings during these two pilot implementations, Spices Board is planning to setup a full-fledged eSpiceBazaar to cover the entire sector for all products, both for domestic and international buyers.

Size of Audience reached (till August 2015): 900 Farmers Registered

Size of Audience intended to reach over next one year (if available):N/A

Technology platform: MVC frame work Ver. 4.0, .Net framework 4.0, Entity framework Ver. 4.0, SQL Server-2008 R2.

Demo or Live URL of the project (if available):URL- http://espice.lsipl.com