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We visit your estate
A scheduled round of work — feeding, spraying, shade, harvest, whatever the season calls for. You know before we come, and you know when we have been.
Cardamom estate management · Idukki
Your estate, managed in the open
We run cardamom estates for growers across the Idukki hills — and we show you every day's work on your phone. Every fertilizer round, every harvest, every rupee. Nothing you have to take on trust.
- Photo proof
- Costs you can see
- Private to you
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Live from the estates
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- Plots under management
- 24
- Visits logged and costed
- 29
- Photographs filed
- 326 kg
- Cured this season
Why growers move to us
Most estate management ends with a phone call
You are told the spraying is done. You are told the harvest came to so many kilos. If you live away from the estate — in Kochi, in the Gulf, anywhere but the hillside — you have no way to check, and no record at the end of the season.
A message, some time later
Spraying is over. Everything is fine, no problem.
Harvest was good this round 👍
- Which spray? What dose? On which block?
- Good compared to what?
- What did it cost?
- And in six months, where is any of this?
One pod, four stages
From the runner on the ground to a graded kilo
- 01On the plant
It starts as a panicle on the ground
Cardamom fruits on runners at the base of the plant, in the shade, out of sight. Whether the crop sets at all is decided months earlier — by feeding, by shade, by what was sprayed and when.
40–45 days between picking rounds
- 02Picked
Picked by hand, round after round
Pods ripen unevenly, so the same block is picked six or seven times a season. Each round is a crew, a date, a green weight — logged on the estate before anyone leaves it.
6–7 rounds a season, per block
- 03Cured
Cured slowly, or the colour is gone
In the curing house the pods come down to about ten per cent moisture. Too hot and the green burns off; too slow and they mould. The temperature curve is the whole craft.
≈5 kg green to 1 kg cured
- 04Graded
Graded, weighed, and priced honestly
Sorted by size and colour into bold and lower grades. You see the split for your own estate — not a single number at the end of the season, but every round that made it.
8mm+ bold fetches the premium
What we do
The whole year on your estate
All servicesThe cardamom year
Twelve months, and none of them idle
October
What happens on your estate
- Heaviest picking rounds
- Curing and moisture control
- Grading
Cardamom does not wait. Every one of these has a window, and missing it costs a season. Running to the calendar is most of the job.
Your private portal
Open your phone. See your estate.
Every grower we work with gets a private login. No app to install, nothing to learn — it opens in your browser and shows only your estates, only your records.
Photos and video from every visit
Dated, captioned and kept — not lost in a chat thread.
Harvest and grading, round by round
Green weight, dried weight and grade for the whole season.
Costs, itemised
Materials, labour and wages — what was spent and on what.
Good morning
Thomas Mathew
This season
₹1,84,200
spent
Dried
412 kg
7 rounds
Recent work
Harvest — 4th round
12 Feb · 58 kg green
Fertilizer round
04 Feb · Factomphos 50 kg
Shade regulation
28 Jan · 3 workers
How it works
From the hillside to your hand, the same day
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The work is recorded on the spot
Photographs, videos, materials used, workers present and costs, entered from the field before we leave. Nothing written up from memory afterwards.
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It appears in your portal
You open your phone and see exactly what was done on your land that day, with the proof attached — wherever in the world you happen to be.
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The season adds up
Every input, every harvest, every rupee — one continuous record you can read, filter and download when the year closes.
Also from us
Buy our own harvest
Alongside the estates we manage, we grow and cure cardamom of our own — graded on the estate and sold direct, at the price it deserves.
Let's talk about your estate
Tell us where your land is and what it needs. We will visit, walk it with you, and give you an honest plan for the season.