Kodagu Coorg Plantation Coffee Pepper Cardamom Karnataka

Kodagu district, known as Coorg, in the Western Ghats of Karnataka is India premier multi-crop plantation zone, growing coffee, black pepper, cardamom, orange, and areca nut on the same estate under multi-canopy farming. Kodagu estates are typically family-owned holdings of five to fifty acres practising shade-grown coffee cultivation under silver oak and native forest trees. Pepper vines climb coffee trees, and cardamom grows in moist gullies. Cooperative producer companies in Madikeri aggregate Arabica coffee from smallholders for specialty export and cup quality assessment. Coorg Cooperative Marketing Federation supports collective marketing of blemish-free cardamom at Spices Board certified prices. Kodagu tribal communities — Jenu Kuruba — practice traditional honey collection and forest-edge cultivation within Coorg plantation landscapes.