Chapter · Visit Vandanmedu · Idukki Walk the plantation

Come walk the line
with us.

Serious trade buyers are welcome to visit Vandanmedu and the plantation. Coffee, the auction floor, a colour-sort walk-through, a curing-house demo, and a long lunch — same day in Idukki.

IdukkiBy appointmentMon–Sat
№ 01 · Where to find us Three addresses — the registered head office, the processing centre, and the auction floor. All within driving distance in the Idukki belt.

Three doors
in the hills.

Head Office · Registered

Amayar, Idukki

1/175-180, Mas Enterprises Limited,
Kumaly–Munnar Road,
Amayar, Idukki,
Kerala 685551 · India

+91 484 2988100
[email protected]

Processing & Trade Desk

Vandanmedu

Mas Enterprises Processing Centre,
Vandanmedu — cardamom capital of India,
Idukki District, Kerala.

+91 9447 070 770
[email protected]

Auction Centre

Spices Board Auction

Licensed cardamom auctioneer on the Spices Board auction floor — open lots viewable by appointment for visiting trade buyers.

+91 9447 000 770
By appointment only

№ 02 · The visit What a buyer's day at Vandanmedu typically looks like — half a day at the plantation, half a day in the processing centre and on the auction floor.

A day in the
cardamom hills.

09

Coffee & welcome

Morning briefing at the trade desk — the lots on the floor today, the grades currently shipping, and the questions on your spec sheet.

WhereVandanmedu Trade Desk
10

The plantation

Drive up to the estate. Walk a working block, taste a fresh capsule off the bush, see the curing house in operation. Forty minutes from Vandanmedu.

WhereEstate · 900–1,200 m
13

Lunch & auction floor

Lunch at Vandanmedu, then onto the auction floor. Watch lots move, see how the grades are called, walk the inspection benches.

WhereSpices Board Auction Centre
15

Processing & lab

Colour-sort line walk-through, packing demonstration, lab reports for the grades you are buying. Specifications closed before close of day.

WhereProcessing Centre · Lab

Want to plan a visit?

Email the trade desk with your arrival window and we will line up plantation access, the auction floor, lunch, and a driver from Cochin airport.