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Jaintia Hills, MeghalayaLakadong
The best-known high-curcumin turmeric in the country, and the reason buyers started asking about percentages at all.
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We work out of the Armoor belt in Nizamabad — the part of Telangana that has grown turmeric for generations. We keep ten varieties separate, name them, and sell the corn, millets, pulses and oilseeds that come off the same land.
The reason
Ask for turmeric anywhere and you get a yellow powder with no variety attached. But Lakadong and Rajapuri are not the same crop in any way that matters — different curcumin, different colour, different rhizome, different price. Blending them and calling the result turmeric loses the only information a serious buyer needs.
So we keep the lots apart from lifting through to packing, and we tell you which one you're buying. If you want potency we'll point you at one group; if you want bold fingers for grinding, another.
The ten
The best-known high-curcumin turmeric in the country, and the reason buyers started asking about percentages at all.
Two released varieties bred for curcumin. Pragati holds yield alongside it, which is why it spread through the belt quickly.
Yield varieties with even, bold fingers. Both also move as seed rhizome to farmers planting the next crop.
The traditional trade varieties — Rajapuri for the size of its mother rhizome, Salem for the bright colour the market grew up on.
The landrace of our own belt. Not bred for anything in particular — just what has been grown and replanted here for generations.
Curcuma caesia and Curcuma amada. One is rare and mostly medicinal or ritual; the other smells of raw mango and goes into pickle.
How lots are handled
None of this is complicated. It just has to be done consistently, which is where most of the trade falls down.
Each variety comes off its own plot and stays in its own heap from the day it is lifted.
Drying behaviour differs by variety, so batches are never combined to fill a yard.
Sorted for size and damage before packing, so what you open matches the sample you saw.
The variety and lot travel with the pack, so a query can always be traced back.
For bulk enquiries we will send a sample of the variety you are considering, so you can check colour, size and smell against your own standard before ordering a lot.