Deep-gold rhizomes, cured and dried in the same red hill soil that shades the coffee groves of Araku Valley.
In Araku, turmeric rarely gets a field of its own. It's tucked into the plots between forest edge and coffee grove, growing in the same iron-rich red laterite soil that gives the whole region its colour. Farmers lift the rhizomes by hand after the monsoon eases, boil and cure them using methods passed down through generations, then sun-dry them on open ground until the moisture drops to export standard.
The result is a rhizome with a strong, warm colour and an aroma that's more earthy than sharp — the kind of turmeric that reads as a whole spice on a shelf, not a commodity powder. It's part of the tribal diet here as much as it's a cash crop, which is part of why the knowledge of curing it well has never really been lost.
Sun-dried, uncut rhizome — the traditional export form, graded by size.
Cleaned and polished whole turmeric, ready for grinding at destination.
Milled to order, packed in export cartons or bulk sacks on request.
Lot sizes, current pricing and available packaging formats vary by season — get in touch for our current turmeric spec sheet.
We're happy to send turmeric samples and full specifications to serious buyers in Germany, the United States and beyond.
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