Malaysia is renown for its enormous variety of tropical fruits, flora and spices. A warm sunny climate with rain in due season and fertile soil permit abundant harvests of a wide range of fresh produces. Among these the best known is Sarawak Pepper. Over the last hundred years, Sarawak Pepper has been exported throughout the world from Sarawak on Borneo Island, Malaysia. It has gained international recognition by chefs and gourmets as one of the favorite pepper ingredients due to its distinctive flavor and taste perfected through years of government research effort. It is also complimented with state of the art pepper cleaning and sterilization plants to meet any requirement globally. Sarawak pepper is now packed by Sarawak Produces Industries Co. (SPIC) for the household consumers, food caterers, and food/meat processors, spice packers etc. Full range of packagings are developed to accommodate all end users segments: high end, medium and economical consumers.

Sarawak ranks amoungst the world's four leading producers of pepper (piper nigrum L) and exports and average 45 million pounds (20,000 metric tons) annually in the period 2001 - 2004.

Practically all Sarawak pepper exports are in the form of black and white pepper which are produced generally in the ratio of 70:30 respectively. In recent years, green pepper in brine and dehydrated forms has also been produced in substantial quantities.