Sri Lankan spice exporters who visited the International Food Technology Food Expo and Annual Conference held in Chicago this month, hit it big with orders to the value of 600,000 US dollars.
In addition to the spices and allied products, coconut and coconut based products have shown a marked increase in potential for export into the US.
It is targeted to achieve an export earning of 1 billion US dollars from both the Spices and Coconut sectors by year 2020, to be a part of the 20 billion US dollars of total exports targeted.