Ginger is one of the earliest known oriental spices and is being cultivated in for both as fresh vegetable and as a dried spice, since time immemorial. Ginger is obtained from the The ginger family is a tropical group, especially abundant consisting of more than 1200 plant species in 53 genera. The area under cultivation in India is 107.54 thousand ha and the total production of the country is 385.33 thousand tons.
