Ginger

Product Name:  Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber Officinale

HS Code:  091010

Brief Product Description:

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a medicine. It is an herbaceousperennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. The rhizome (ginger) is gathered when the stalk withers; it is immediately scalded, or washed and scraped, to kill it and prevent sprouting.

Quality/Standard:

Moisture content:      8% max
Oil content:               2-4%
Impurities:                0-2%max
Microbes:                 Negative

Packaging:

The  fresh ginger are packaged in PVC cartons or corrugated fibre box  with inner lining of PE films while the dried split ginger are packaged in a clean propylene woven bags.