Form: Whole Origin: Sri Lanka Payment Terms: Advance TT or 40% advance TT balance CAD. Black pepper from Sri Lanka or Ceylon Island, the old name for Sri Lanka, is a very high quality pepper. The pepper producers have joined together in a Sri Lankan cooperative and they take particular care in selecting the best peppercorns. They are brilliant, of extra caliber and coming from very beautiful spice gardens. Known as the King of spices, black pepper (Piper nigrum), a perennial crop of the tropics, is economically the most important and the most widely used spice crop of the world. The Sri Lankan Pepper has higher piperine content which gives it a superior quality and pungency. Pepper is offered in different grades for grinding and extraction of essential oils and oleoresins. In Sri Lanka pepper is grown in the wet and intermediate zones mostly as mixed crops.