Nagaland’s speciality ‘Raja Mircha’ which is also referred to as king chilli owing to its intense spiciness was for the 1st time exported to London on Wednesday. According to the release issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, a compact consignment of Raja Mircha from Nagaland was exported to the capital of Britain through Guwahati on an aeroplane. King Chilli which is viewed as the world’s hottest on the basis of Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) has currently been certified as Geographically Indications(GI) tagged to the state of Nagaland. Expressing happiness more than the indigenous solution of the Nagaland state obtaining exported to world’s most significant markets, Prime Minister Naredra Modi took to twitter to express his happiness and quipped that only these who have had Bhoot Jolokia would know how spicy it is.
The ‘Bhoot Jolokia’ PM Modi referred to in his tweet is one of the numerous names King Chilli is well-known by, with a further getting Ghost pepper. The consignment of King Chilli which was exported to London constituted Raja Mircha grown at Tening which is a element of Peren district of the state. Owing to its one of a kind speciality, the Raja Mircha was certified with the GI tag in the year 2008, as per the release issued from the Commerce and Industry Ministry.
The groundwork of exporting the King Chilli from a compact district of Nagaland to London was laid by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) and Nagaland State Agricultural Marketing Board (NSAMB). APEDA had earlier asked the NSAMB officials to send a handful of samples of the King Chilli for laboratory testing benefits of which turned out to be encouraging and incredibly positive. In addition to the top quality tests, what bothered the officials of the APEDA and NSAMB was the perishable nature of the Green Chilli taking into consideration that the journey from Nagaland to London on a ship would take at least a handful of days. To rule out the possibility of any shortcoming in the solution, the officials decided to export the solution to London on a plane.