A History of Agriculture in India v1.c33.s9.3
A History of Agriculture in India v1.c33.s9.3
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Fig. 191. Black-pepper (Piper nigrum) was the favourite spice of Indians till the Portuguese introduced red-pepper (Capsicum frutescens) from Peru, South America, in the sixteenth century. Black-pepper is grown in Kerala, trained on posts of Erythrina variegata var. orientalis