Planted in 1960.
Exporting since 1984.
A single slope of the Idukki highlands, one family, and the spice the world calls the Queen.
It begins on a hillside above Kumily.
In 1960 our family cleared a strip of forest in the high range and planted cardamom — green-pod Elettaria cardamomum, under the shade of the canopy trees that still stand there.
Two decades later, in 1984, we turned the estate into an export house. The first tin of green pods went to a buyer across the Arabian Sea, and a small Idukki plantation became a name on bills of lading in Sharjah, Doha and Riyadh.
Today, under Vimal Sunny, Highrange Spices ships single-origin cardamom and a tight pantry of companion spices to importers, food-service houses and private-label buyers across the Gulf and South Asia. The office is still on NH 183. The phone is still answered by family.
Sixty-six years on one slope.
Planted
The family plants cardamom under canopy shade in the high range above Kumily.
First export
Highrange Spices begins exporting green cardamom to the Gulf.
Own facility
A HACCP-compliant processing and grading house is built at NH 183.
Single origin
Eight country buyers, a Spices Board award, and full traceability to the block.
What 4,300 feet does to a pod.
Elevation is everything in cardamom. Cool nights slow the plant; monsoon air keeps the canopy damp; mineral, free-draining soil concentrates the oil.
Our cardamom is shade-grown beneath the original forest canopy — never cleared, never full-sun. It is hand-picked green, pod by pod, across a long season, then carried down to the processing house the same day.
Our own processing house.
Curing, grading, sorting, packing, R&D and logistics — under one roof at NH 183, Kumily. Built to HACCP standards so every lot is handled, recorded and dispatched in a controlled environment.
Buy single-origin, straight from the estate.
From sample to shipment, you deal with the family that grows it.
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