en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper

This article is about bell pepper, a cultivar group of Capsicum annuum. But FAOSTAT keeps that crop separate from peppercorn/black pepper, which is the commodity “Pepper (Piper spp.), raw.”

The problem is that the production statement uses a Piper commodity label and figures inside a Capsicum article. FAOSTAT’s official commodity pages show these are different products:

• Bell/chili peppers are tracked as “Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.)”.
• Peppercorn is tracked separately as “Pepper (Piper spp.), raw.”

A market page that reproduces the 2024 FAOSTAT pepper data for Vietnam explicitly gives the same 262,230 tonnes figure for pepper and separately lists Capsicum (Bell Pepper) as a different product. That is a category mismatch: the article’s sentence is presenting peppercorn production data as if it were about bell peppers.

So the sentence is incorrect for this article’s subject, even if the quoted numbers may correspond to a different FAOSTAT commodity.

The sentence gets the borrowing direction backwards.

Etymological references trace English pepper this way:

• Sanskrit pippali → Greek peperi/piperi → Latin piper → Old English pipor/piper → Middle English peper.

So the Germanic/Old English forms derive from Latin, not vice versa. One standard etymology states that Old English pipor came from “an early West Germanic borrowing of Latin piper.” Another dictionary entry likewise gives Middle English peper, from Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi.

Because the article says “That latin word was borrowed from Germanic languages”, it reverses the documented direction of transmission.