Development prospect of chili industry

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of pepper (including sweet pepper), and its sown area accounts for about 40% of the world's pepper sown area. Agricultural development is an important basis for the development of pepper industry. In recent years, China's pepper planting area and production have continued to grow, mainly for two reasons: first, the widespread spread of spicy food customs, second, pepper in the medical, health care, beauty and other aspects of the function of further exploration, the international market for chili red pigment, capsaicin and other chili deep processing products demand gap is large. The overall end inventory level of chili has shown a steady rise, and the production and marketing of chili have been greatly developed, and the end inventory level has also doubled to meet the consumption demand of the people for this variety. As a big producer and consumer of hot sauce in China, it is expected that in the next few years, the market size of Dried chilli，Paprika，hot Chili sauce， industry will still grow by more than 7%, and by the end of 2020, the market size of hot sauce industry will reach 38.7 billion yuan.

Pepper cultivation conditions are not harsh, the overall fruit regardless of size, shape or color can be eaten, different maturity of pepper can be sold, can also be sold after processing. Due to the processing methods of pepper, the processing amount is large, the listing consumption time is long and there is no concentrated consumption pressure on the listing, and the listing price is relatively stable. The outer peel of pepper is thicker, the internal absorption of pesticides is poor, and the content of agricultural residue is lower than that of other vegetables. Basically, there are no reports of agricultural residue poisoning of pepper in the media. In short, pepper is a vegetable crop with low industrial risk and has a broad development future.