Spice traders associations from the United States, Europe and Japan will be among those taking part in the IPC meeting, hosted by Sri Lanka's ministry of minor export crop promotion, he said.
The IPC meetings will cover pepper farming methods, production forecasts and quality improvement and export promotion.
A new set of good manufacturing practices for pepper production and processing recommended recently by the IPC will be discussed at the Colombo meeting, trade officials said.
The new hygienic practices cover the minimum requirements of hygiene for harvesting, post-harvest handling like drying, cleaning, and packing, processing and storage.
Once approved, they will be applicable to all the member countries who have faced complaints from buyers about the quality of pepper in the global market mainly due to poor post-harvest handling and storage.
