Black pepper is a commonly used spice that is derived from the fruit of the Piper nigrum plant. Black pepper plants are native to Southern India but are grown in tropical regions all over the world. It is a very typical tropical plant and simply won’t grow in places where the winter temperatures drop below 12°C and are very thirsty, requiring 2000 mm of rainfall annually. Thankfully, however, the plants thrive best when provided organic fertilisers like cow manure as opposed to chemical fertilisers. In ancient days these peppercorns were to be used as the currency during barter exchange system. This production is done from the green unripe berries of the pepper plant.