Why Green Cardamom Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Green cardamom is the third most expensive spice in the world, after saffron and vanilla. Just 100 grams of the spice can cost about $9. That’s about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little bit of cardamom requires a lot of work. Harvesters need to collect 6 kilograms of raw pods by hand to produce just 1 kilogram of green cardamom. But just because several pods from the same tree are ripe doesn’t mean they all will be. This is why each pod must be plucked by hand. So why is it so hard to grow green cardamom? And is that what makes it so expensive?
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Why Green Cardamom Is So Expensive | So Expensive
If anyone gets a chance, please visit idukki district of Kerala. The smell of freshly harvested Cardamom is heavenly.
I'm now in aluva
Idukki destroyed during last heavy rain season
@@kingnole4237 nope , Jesus Christ is not god , he was messenger of God ,
I usually go to Idukki, but for something else that's green 🤭
@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ what happened to you?? We are talking about Cardamon
We all always ignore the hard work of farmers, They should be respected...
Not everyone.
Not all farmers are good. Large scale farming is no different than a huge oil company! Profit over ethics.
@@betchface752, it is not in India , majority of Indian farmers are small scale farmers
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 agreed!
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 small scale farming can lead to bonded labour and arrested development in a country.
When you're typical Indian who throws cardamom out of your mouth while having Biryani without realising how expensive it is😶
🤣🤣hmm true...
Lmao that elaichi always finds a way to get in my mouth🤦♂️
Haha that's me they taste gross
haha same in pakistan
Haha lol
we Indians throw cardamom into everything from tea to rice without realising how expensive it is 🤣🤣🤣 I myself didn’t know that it was so expensive
I think because it's cheap in india
@@srambition not at all, just search how much does 1 kg of it costs in India..
@@deepapv1374 but nobody buys 1 kg of cardamom plus compared to other countries it costs pennies in india
@@srambition i only asked you to check how much it will cost in India, prices are usually calculated in kg as standard value.. people don't buy it as 1 kg, because it's not affordable for ordinary man..you said it is cheap here.. I only meant that, it is not even cheap here in India.. for a common man the cost is high even though it's origin is here and also cultivated here.. in abroad, cost will be higher because it is exported..
if you buy as a kilo, it will cost less.. you may be not buying as 1 kg, but there are people who buy as 1 kg.. I remember one of our Family friend asking for order from his farm as half kg and 1 kg packs..
if many don't buy it as 1 kg, it doesn't mean that it is cheap and is not expensive...
Cardamom is costly anywhere... Just few grams even cost much even here... only famers don't benefit much.
@@deepapv1374 i am saying that in comparision to other countries it's still cheap in india... as someone who doesnt live in india it is still cheap in india 🤷♀️ i bought 100gms of cardamom in korea for 600 Rupees ...
I live in Kerala (Idukki ) district , it's really hard job to take care of the cardomom , my father is also a cardomom farmer
If I came anytime nearby there will you give tour of town and tell me about your farming
I am from maharashtra just to let you know😀
@@thegoodencyclopedia5943 awesome, may i join you on this tour? I am from Canada =) you can pick me up on the way, no? I can pitch on for gas. =)
Malayali okke ivide undalle
@@thegoodencyclopedia5943 sure thing man
@@Jo-mz2my പിന്നെ അല്ല
Price rise of cardamom doesn't always mean rise of income of farmers. My father is a cardamom farmer for 20 plus years. As far as i can remember good harvest and good price coincided only 4 or 5 times. It's really hard to make a living for small scale cardamom farmers.
If you are educated why can't you help your father become more optimised seller?
Can you sell in pakistan
@@priyeshgupta164 i am talking about small scale farmers. There are no notable cardamom farmers group or anything in the district to bargain higher prices.
Silahkan gunakan Google translate. Ini bahasa Indonesia. Kakak saya, ibu saya, nenek saya, buyut saya,.adalah pedagang kapulaga. Saat harga turun simpan. Ada banyak teknik pengawetan. Lakukan saja. Simpan. Saat harga mulai naik, jual pelan pelan. Di India dan Indonesia, kapulaga memang tidak perlu ditanam. Tanaman ini menyebar begitu saja seperti gulma. Dan memang, saat tanaman ini membuat koloni di sepetak tanah, dia pasti membunuh tanaman tetangganya, tak peduli itu pohon yang sudah tumbuh besar dan kuat. Cardamom me monopoli semua nutrisi tanah, hanya untuk koloninya. Jadi kapulaga memang sangat bernutrisi dan sangat harum.
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i am from jordan and almost all jordanian dishes have cardamom in it, we value this seed so much rich in flavour. all respect to the farmers
Can we get a “So Cheap” series where BI explores how some things are made so inexpensively? Like how does Poundland and Dollarama have so much stuff for less than $5.
So cheap palm oil already there
Yes please!!
That would not be fun to see 😒😒
i would love that
are you dumb? this is one of the elite spice out there. it is used universally. you must appreciate how it comes and that town is still a village and not like these oil rich countries. though its cost is higher than gasoline! 1 kg cardamom is 15 to 20 dollars to 6 dollars per gallon 3.3 liters of oil. still the village has not reaped any rewards! well, that is nothing new in india.
I always wonder how much more expensive green cardamom would be if it was harvested by Canadian or American labour at even the minimum wage. Getting an editor for my channel is a lot cheaper from India especially due to the exchange rate
Or Europeans
@@klug_d that’s true.
@@Thebreakdownshow1 well as cost of living is too high in America, canada and EU I guess the price would be very high and may even be overpriced.
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 cost of living is not high it’s just the standard of living
Don’t just chalk up the difference in cost of the produce to the living cost.
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 I hundred percent agree if anything there needs to be a slight bump in specially American minimum wage because the rest of the G7 countries are far ahead of them. For my own channel I was doing some research steal it and it was quite shocking to realize America is a Third World country out of the first world countries.
Indians daily ate this in morning tea, after having lunch as a mouth freshener, my grandparents eat that with cloves, this was the first sweet thing I ate when I was child.
ngl its cheap in india more than anywhere else :P, has a indian i have done this too in the monsoon season :) its just tooo refreshing spice
@@lilmusashi yeah in monsoon with bhajiye and chai 🤤☕
It reminds me of "Baba Elaichi" 😂
@@glennex0077 🤣🤣🤣
I first read "my grandparent's eat that with gloves" ...and thought thats reaaaaaaally wierd and i don't think that gloves with Kardamom taste great but yeaah lol 🤣
Fascinating. Farmers do need to be paid more though.
the labor for the landowners to be said more precisely
True, I tried planting corn on my dad's land and I gave up after planting 10 or so seeds manually under the sun. It was exhausting. And all the hard works just sell for pennies. Seesh
Agreed, but then you'll also have to pay more for it
If you're willing to pay more then yes.
@@KhalidKall well that's why they use big ass tractors and plant a hundred in a matter of minutes. Farmer always received the least and it won't change, but I'm all for striping "influencers" out of money and redistributing.
As an owner of 1 acre cardamom land producing over 400kg a year I'm surprised how simple yet informative this video is, For the people who are concerned about the labour wage they get paid around Rs.500 to Rs.700 ($7 to $10) for 6.5 hours of working time, Yes they are underpaid but still save more than an average engineer does in a month in India. They all have their house and family nearby the farm itself and atleast 3 person works for the same farm a day from a family so yeah the job is convenient and nothing special compared to other farming practices except for men where things get difficult due to the inclined position of land and rocks it's hard to carry the bags weighing 50kg a person and to mix the sand for both plantation and cleaning process especially in rainy season. It's the peace and aroma that matters to us and keeps ourselves happy all the time despite other factors like low wages etc. I live in the southern part of India (Kerala - Munnar to be specific).
I think in the end it's the peace and happiness that matters.
We always feel someone's life is better than other's. But somewhere something's get compromised in both places
Don't worry we will change
Can u share ur contact details ... I'm looking for cardamom in bulk
Seriously such a good spice, wonderful in deserts, tea. And yeah I can get brown cardamom for cheap but I pay 60$ a kilo for the good green stuff.
Nandha Gopal is the name of Mahesh Babu in super hit Tollywood movie Athadu; excellent info bro.
We use cardamon in our Lebanese coffee and tea recipes and in many of our sweets/deserts, so tasty! My gratitude to India and its people for the hardwork, and it's so heartbreaking to see how much they earn for something so pricey and delicate.
Granted..
@@ABHISHEKSINGH-qh5yo 🙏☺️
Farmers don't get much money it's all taken by middle men
@@1incosmos hierarchy sucks in today's society, sadly. The higher one is in his education the better the jobs he will have, and thus, the greedier and more selfish one becomes..
@@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde
Yaah! You are right!... My Uncle is your best proof! 😬😬😬
Here we go. Another series of most expensive spice in the world, strangely, made with the cheapest labour in the world!
Rdiculous how the supermarket has more of a margin and less of the risk.
Another woke guy😒
Breakfast at your place may cost you 2dollar, whereas there it is just 5 cents
@@y4ip2288 I mean he ain't wrong.
@@y4ip2288 even in a developing country, if you are growing one of the most expensive spices, you should see massive return for your labour. These people by any international metric are still on or below poverty line. Care to explain why that is if not exploitation?
@@deeksha1141 answer this simple question : Have you recently hired any labourer /worker or any sort of guy for a perticular activity? If so do you find the price quoted by those guys is fair enough?
Then I will try to explain you about who is getting exploited.. Deeksha garu...
So everyone just going to ignore how beautiful the town is
Nah, I captured the beautiful scenery in my eyes.
It's grows some of the best weed in in the Indian peninsula
KERALA
It is my home town. It is a border town between state of Kerala and Tamilnadu..
Nope
Have screenshotted the trees part
Never have I wanted smell-o-vision more than when watching this video. The smell of cardamom is heavenly.
Ps: 70 USD might be the final market price tag, while the farmers get a mere 15 dollar( equivalent of 1200 INR) selling price especially after the Covid market fall. The supply chain networks and middlemen are the ones who are really benifiting from it.
Just like cocaine
@@Skunkhunt_42 Mmmmmmm, cocaine. =) haha
Well everyone in the market chain has to make some profit. Thats first thing that bumps up the price. And second of course is the transport. Depending on how long stuff can last and location its either transported by plain, ship, truck or train (often combination of these). And of course plane transportation isnt exactly cheap. So its logical that the final price is a lot higher than what the farmer gets.
The question is how much the transport costs and who makes what ammount of profit. It could be fair or not but its impossible to tell just based on difference of those two prices.
@@martinbudinsky8912 everybody is somebody's custy, the wheel of life
@@martinbudinsky8912 But shoud it be 4 times more as the initial production cost?
Especially in India.
Dude has been farming this for 30 years and he's not rich yet, that's a problem.
Indian farmers in a nutshell. too bad man. no farmer is appreciated, many farmers protested in the Capital city of India. Yet, nothing was given attention by the government. The politics is completely bullshit. The events that happened with the Farmers in the capital are more than Human Crime. Give a look at it
@@sajurajan5987 privatisation will bring more options for the farmers and will help avoid middlemen and sell directly to the consumer and companies. Will provide room for startups and digitalization in agriculture sector. Btw the once protesting don't represent all the farmers in India, still they have every right to protest and to be heard by the gov . In my opinion privatization and abolishment of mandi system is revolutionary for the agricultural sector in our country.
I've been a chemist for 40 years and am not rich either 😥
@@yourneighbour304 I don't see processing industry as enthused with these reforms. What more do they need ?
You can't compare Indian farmers to US farmers because an average US farmer has exponentially large areas of land to cultivate from compared to India.
I don't know why but I was so happy knowing that I could understand them without the subtitles.
You fromTamilnadu? Hi neighbour👋
It feels good to listen to your own language 😊
@@ajaysuresh1240 I'm Canadian but my parents are from Coimbatore.
@@impasta5313ooh. I'm from the neighbouring state Kerala. Been to Coimbatore once.
I used to run a natural food store and found that I love the smell and taste of cardamom. Every morning I went to the cardamom container and took a deep sniff, it invigorated me! Still today i love it and try using in coffee ,teas and baked items. While in Burma i enjoyed the taste of it on Indian dishes. Thank you India for cardamom!
All farmers experience this. They do all the labor but gets less. Sad reality.
Welcome to Capitalism
@@shadwen2263 uhu evil capitalist ugh. Yeah call me evil since I own a fish farm, I can smack your face with the bills I have to pay in order to keep that farm running.
same as coffee
Every Christmas my family makes Swedish coffee bread with cardamom, and adding just half a teaspoon of this stuff makes the flavor for around 8 pieces of medium sized bread (maybe 3 in x 1.5 in x 6 in each) and the flavor is SO good. This is probably my favorite spice in the world, and it has such a nice smell.
"Swedish coffee bread with cardamom" - Sounds yum!
I may have to look up a recipe :-)
@@bakedbean37 You should, it takes a bit of time to make- but is completely worth while! :)
I wish there was an internet of fragrances so I could look up what each variety of spice smells like.
@@luddity you know what, that would be nice. I wish for that too now lol
Interesting. I am Swedish. Christmas is the only time of year when we do not have sweet bread with cardamom... During Christmas time sweet bread is spiced with an even more expensive spice - saffron. But for the rest of the year cardamom is the spice to add to the bread (or actually the dough) cinnamon buns always have cardamom in the dough and cinnamon, sugar, and butter in the filling.
I have recently experimented with cardamom-spiced vanilla ice cream, which is rather interesting. You add more and more cardamom and it gets better and better. You just want the next batch to have more cardamom, then suddenly it is just too much and you need to decrease the amount because it is close to unconsumable. The amount limit is of course individual, but it is a very fine line between "I want more cardamom" and "this is unedible/awful".
My greatest gratitude to Indian farmers, who grow cardamom, so im able to have a cup of cardamom infused spicy milk teain the morning!🙏🙏🙏
I keep on asking myself what i would have done in this world without you. Thank you so much for the help.
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Alot of them here in dubai. Some in our daily biryanis, much respect to this hard working individuals.
looks like u have a cardamom in ur eye 😂😂😂😂
@@asdghkii 😂😂😂😂, no pork in dubai
@@BlackMamba-lt8oe there is pork in dubai, there are non-muslim sections of the supermarket that has pork and other foods that are disallowed to Muslims.
@@justdecons7961 that is chicken bro named as pork is fake 😂😂😂😂
@@justdecons7961 when vegans setup up shops will they sell u real meat
Just imagining the how fragrant the forest would be smelling❤️❤️
Yeahh bro
Usually smells of pesticide.
The forest won't smell of cardamom, because you'll have to crush the pod for the fragrance to come out. But, if you step on the pods every now and then you walk through there, you might get a good olfactory experience 😅
The Cardamom hills (& forests) are good for birding experience, as the crop create a unique ecosystem with century old trees forming a shady canopy...The fragrance comes further, to careful drying 🙏✌
I used to very casually add cardamom to my tea as i love its aroma....but after watching this video...and knowing how much efforts it takes to grow and harvest and get it to my kitchen..... I will be full of gratitude with each sip of my tea 😌.
Hearing him talking in tamil❤ I'm so proud .. தமிழ் ❤
Love from Idukki, Kerala. We are the primary producers of the spice in India.
Which is the proper place of this
areas with low temparature and high rainfall
@@mushrifafarseena3590 Udumbanchola Taluk in Idukki, Kerala. And some other places in the district too.
@@ashish_sunny But why is he speaking Tamil?
@@BruceWayne-qe7bs because all this is in India, and India is multi-lingual
"most expensive spice"
Meanwhile the farmers are obviously live in extreme poverty 😒
Indians are mostly protein malnutrised due to vegetarian diet. Those farmers are anything but poor ,they must be making atleast 15000- 20000 dollars per year ,which is huge money in India.
Some may say most indians eat meat but eating meat once a week/month/year will still make you protein deficient.
@@akkr3548 Nah bro. Beans contain as much protein as meat. Protein is built out of amino acids and as far as i know there aren't any amino acids found in meat that you can't find in plant based foods. I'm not a vegetarian or anything but eating a vegetarian diet doesn't necessarily lead to protein deficit.
@@ludvig4752 Haha.. I am the vegetarian here. Saying all this with my experience , lost a lot of weight after I switched to 100% vegetarian diet, my muscles have become stretchy (old people) from tough.
Plant protein is not easily digestible by humans ,will stress your organs.
@@rishabhrai7552 You can be healthy but that doesnt mean that you arent protein defficient. There are different proteins (ammounts) in animal based products and plant based products. And humans by nature are omnivores -> that means we should consume both meat and vegetables/fruits for a balanced diet. Usually vegans substitute these with different food supplements because certain proteins are extremely rare in plants or those plants arent available.
@@rishabhrai7552 Every food preferences has its own merits and demerits. Depends on what and why people want , I have chosen vegetarian diet for peaceful mind but it's anything but healthy as people claim . But both vegetarian and non vegetarian have demerits, none of them are perfectly healthy . One of them is damaging for heart and other for kidney and liver. Most indians have increased uric acid , diabetes, blood pressure. Reason : Rice rich diet , Mustard oil and lentils.
Recently Indians were ranked 100+ in malnutrition, most people were blaming government but the real reason was meat less diet. Most people here are stunted, poor body ratios, deformed bodies. Most indians are just fats and those doing physical hard work loose those fats fastly and thus look diseased, malnutrised and poor. But we all know there are hardly poor in India who can't even get 3 times food as international media claims.
This makes me appreciate this spice so much . It’s so hard for these farmers , they are the ones that should be paid more
Proud to be from a family of living with farming cardamom, also proud to living in idukki, kerala
How much is 1KG of cardamom?
@@mofarah186 950-1100 rs kg
The cardamom must flow. Black pepper and cardamom are the only spices I need.
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Just add cinnamon in there 😂
@@johnfran3218 send link ref
I use this for my tea with cinnamon. The most delicious tea ever!
Share the recipe
yes tea tastes good with cardamom
*great video, sharp images, well-composed footage*
*why is it in bold?*
*dont know*
Wow what a coincidence, i was literally in the shop yesterday wondering why it was so expensive. Thx BI!
I think business insider is slowly becoming India insider.😂
Pfft, it's a nice change that's highlighting more exotic and foreign crafts and trades than just the usual generic western business.
It's important to show this side of non western nations
I mean it's not like a billion people live there and so there's a lot to talk about or anything, oh wait...
This is business.
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CCP don't allow media easily
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Happy to see this being featured in business insider.
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@@humblewiz4953 ഞാൻ അങ്ങനെ കരുതുന്നു
It looks like place in Tamil Nadu
TN or KL all same bro ❤️
@@rakeshomE Bruh dude wtf, saying Kerala and Tamil Nadu is same is very offending to me, its like your saying that kerala doesn't exist
I truly respect these workers.this job is tedious work. Thank you for your work.
This world needs to change. We need to support these farmers that bring such wonderful exotic products to us. They deserve a good life as well🇨🇦
You support them by buying their stuff
@@atur9707 I do😊
Thanks for ur concern
Respect to these farmers. I learned that the whole green cardamoms I can buy in the US, although pretty expensive, are pretty low quality.
What are high quality??
They said buying spices in the USA is cleaner than getting them from country of origin. They test for all kinds of contaminants. Buy organic.
I literally have a full jar of cardamon in my kitchen right now, so glad to be an Indonesian
itu bumbu apa ya
If you will sell it in India you earn around 153315 Indonesian currency.
But Indian and Indonesian Cardamom are way different. Indian ones are green in colour like in this video, more fragrant and had a disticnt cardamom flavour. Indonesian ones are greyish, more subtle in flavour and not too fragrant.
.... okay?
I love business insider. As a business student your contents give me a perspective of how raw materials affect the market price
Green Cardamom (elaichi) really is my favourite of all spices. The aroma is just exquisite.
you should try black cardamom. It has a completely different and exquisite aroma
My most favorite spice of all time. I hope it's readily available here in my country. It's so expensive and hardly any stores sells it. Now, I know how it is grown, harvested and processed. But seeing these makes me think all the hard work of those who plant it is all worth it. Plus, it's just so good. I hope growing cardamom will be sustainable and rewarding for the farmers and merchants too.
haha I very much like your picture. =)
Its Cheap in India
How about clove, die for fragrance and put on the tongue, keeps cv away.
Agriculture has really been unrated for a long time. 🍷Cheers to farmers
Respect
They deserve no respect
@@Cienfuegos.???
@@Cienfuegos. well they do serious hard labor to supply agricultural products to the public. So I think they deserve 💯 respect ✊
@@official_inoch4027 why would I respect someone who is inferior to me in every way?
Fantastic video, so well shot. Thanks for educating me on my fav spice!
Finally a "so expensive" product I have used😂😂😂😂
I love these kinds of videos so much, they make me appreciate these things more!
I was introduced to Cardamon as a teen working for an Indian Family. They made cardamon ice cream. It was the best thing I’d ever tasted at the time
Feel delighted to see the beauty of our nation India ❤️
A very good, distinguished reportage... Thank you very much, and million thanks for the poor, silent, forgotten souls involved in cardamon's culture and production! I'm a village boy myself and I've witnessed the eternal suffering of villagers/ farmers at close hand! 🙏🙏🙏
Idukki is a Malayalam speaking district of Kerala State; The places and people shown are from Kambam of Tamil Nadu state. In certain places over TN also it is grown but it is not a correct depiction of the people or certain places in the video. Hope u guys will do better next time. 👍
How do you mean? What did they say or show wrong? =/
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface so basically the clips shown in the video where actually not from the place mentioned. The native language of the place mentioned Idukki, Kerala,India is 'Malayalam' whereas the people in this video are speaking 'Tamil' which is a language that belongs to a state, neighbouring the state Kerala
@@shreyaspillai8421 aaahhh I see, thanks so much man, i was rather confused, i very much appreciate it... is this just a mistake or is there some kind of agenda that would have them doing this? =/
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface
I guess that the clips might be from some place that lies very close to the borders of those two states. Most likely the owner of the plantation might be from the other state and hence he is speaking the other language. I suspect this to be true cuz the worker had a Malayalam slang while he spoke the other language Tamil.
Both these languages are similar in some ways but you can tell apart when a native malayali(person who speaks Malayalam) speaks tamil
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface further, I saw a vehicle which was registered by the tag kl which abbreviates to Kerala (the actual state mentioned in the video)
My sister has an addiction of green cardamom, she eats like 100s of small packets of these things every month, she's lucky she's in India, in any other country, that havit would be quite expensive
Your sister is weird man. It taste terrible raw. You are supposed to put it in stuff.
Baba elaichi?
@@cece898 Ikr, I think she just likes the smell
@@shravangupta4828 🤣🤣
@@shravangupta4828 😂😂😂😂
He's speaking in Tamil and Malayalam
First grade gets exported.
The ones rejected are the ones mostly sold in India.
You can imagine why this is so expensive
Kerala has been facing floods, especially in Idukki for the past couple of years. They're always under the economic risk
Cardomon is one spice I make a point of keeping , for adding to savory and sweet dishes .
The Cardomon available to me , has some pods full of seeds others not a scerick of a seed .
It's also used in the seasonal fruit and nut cake , that's made for family and friends - none of them are very good at useing spices . There's also the Aryuvedic medicine side of the spice , as well as drinks and other uses mentioned in comments .
For the number of times a plant must be visited for harvesting , along with the skills of the pickers and sorters , I take my hat off , for you all , and say thank you , in gratitude for your hard work - I used to do field work as a child , to help my family , though I suspect that the farmers never paid mum , for the additional work from myself , so I helped the other workers out , looking after their children , or depending on the crop , collecting "seconds" , which couldn't be sold , and would have gone to feed animals , by the sugar sack full , just to help their budgets .
Namaste 🙏❤️🙏❤️💐💐👍
Note to self: appreciate cardamon pods more even if you forget to take them out of your rice
The world: cardamom is expensive
Us indians: I never knew that
🤣 Nice. It's because, for household use we only buy in grams. And also a perk is It's grown in india itself.
Actually!!
So it's not expensive in India ? Which India are you living in my guy
@@neverpayingtaxes I’m living in the normal India and I think it’s not expensive compared to other countries. I live In the uae and cardamom is much more expensive here than in India
@@DarkIYI lmao why are comparing it to other countries ? Okay then why not campare wages and inflation too 🤷🤷, it's very expensive in India even more than in US
I have tea with this stuff,it adds an exotic aroma to it that adds a boost to my mornings.
I love cardamoms. I chew them daily. It's really the queen of spices ❤️. Love From India
Almost non of us have seen the cardamom plants in our life
Then you are always welcome to idukki ..
i'm out of the most😂😂
Me too
I always add some cardamom in my cacao drink along with cinnamon+nutmeg+honey. Very refreshing drink
I am from idukki district, kerala. My father has cardamom plantations. Most of the places are shown in the video are from tamil nadu. I think only the visuals of the farm are from our place idukki, kerala. Other visuals are from Tamil Nadu which is another a beautiful neighbouring state.
Yeah bro
Hello... Can you supply me cardamom?
Hello
Yes ...Idukki belongs kerala and we speak malayalam how come they show a tamilian in the vidoe 🤔 and most of the Visuals are from tamilnadu...
@@abraham_aneeta Actually these parts were Tamil Majority area and under Madras presidency. During 1956 these places went to Kerala due to hilly side of western ghat and eartern slopes are with TN. There is movie called 'merkku thodarchi malai' which was produced by Vijay Sethupathi. It shows life of Cardamom labours. Won many awqrds and Must match film. Its available in youtube. Try to watch it.
I didn’t know elachi was expensive until today my mom puts it in to the tea every morning
Yes!! hardship of famers need to be appreciated and recognised.
dang i put these to my tea everyday and throw them away soon after
silly me i would worship them if i knew they cost this much
Don't throw them just after once, they can be used for atleast 2-3 boil . And even after that eat the remain , it's a good mouthfreshner and ofcourse good for the health.
@@yourneighbour304 well actually i throw them away half of the time
the other half i just swallow them along with the tea
@@erdniealinik from next time chew it , don't swollow directly
you can just make powder of the seeds and mix them with your unprepared tea.
Tell me about it. I can't live without it. Cuz, it's the essential spice in every Indian dish. I also like it in my tea during winter with some ginger. 👌 Saffron is also too expensive here in Canada! 🙄
I will give u as much as u wants
i use green cardamom (Elaichi) everyday in tea, its refreshing and add flavor in tea, Funfact we grew cardamom in central India and can be grown in specific place in Katol :)
and where exactly is Katol?
Wow, I love cardamom. I appreciate this video. Never knew how it was harvested.
தமிழனென்று சொல்லடா தலைநிமிர்ந்து நில்லடா!!!
Proud to be a tamilan
Haha proud to water stealers
Cardamom, black pepper never too expensive for us.. From Kerala the land of spices ❤
Is it suppose to be grown in the countries of certain climate,or can be grown in my backyard.thank you for your hard work and dedication I admire how hard you work.
Is it me or anyone else think that business insider loves to make video about India.
Actually thats a good thing.
"Cardamom is of the most expensive spices in the world"
***laughs in Saffron***
"Cardamom is *one* of the most expensive spices in the world".... one word makes the entire difference
It smells so good! I have some in my cabinet.
Wow... So much work goes behind the scenes to pluck 1 cardamom! 🙏
Watching from kottayam,Kerela which is the district next to idukki...😊
The farmer is speaking my mother tongue,
theni kaarar bro avaru
வணக்கம்
Tamils who stoles Water from Kerala and only care about their people.
@@BruceWayne-qe7bs please stop
@@BruceWayne-qe7bs do you know agreement
I put a lot of these in my tea. It tastes very good! A good Elaichi Chai ( cardamom tea) on a rainy day is a bliss
Navye Saxena. Ur saying absolutely right.
My grandfather and my uncle operate a cardamom plantation in Kerala. The whole process is fascinating and the smell is amazing! I always love visiting.
I had recently ordered 2kg of Idukki's green cardamom (8mm quality) over whatsapp from a local reseller there @ 1500 INR (which is 20 USD) per kg. These sellers or agents from Idukki and Kochi are all over the facebook groups if youre looking for cardamom. Also, it's true that cardamom's colour has a lot do with how easily it can be sold to retailers, so it fetches good value. For this, you can sometimes have the sellers / farmers add artificial colour for your batch, which is a common practice not unheard of.
A farmer who speaks English could sell directly on Amazon.
@@toomanymarys7355 guess what? The farmers in Kerala want to develop a network for repeat customers, and yes- they manage good with their broken English. By selling on amazon, they can't get to know much about their customer base. Also these areas (Cardamom Hills) are not very easy accessible. Getting your products listed online with all formalities and tracking sales is an additional hassle for them. We're not even talking about the competitive pricing yet. Sooner or later this trend may change, and I hope later generations can harness technology to their advantage
CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE HIS CONTACT NO. I WANT TO ORDER
Contact num of the farmer plz even i want to buy it
@@deepthitulluri5155 I'm not sure if he himself grows the cardamom pods. Pls check the prices with him by calling the number which I shared
Kerala mallus is feeling proud here guyz!!!
Entha monoose
But it the place is not Kerala
@@BruceWayne-qe7bs ehh!! Bruu!! I live in kerala, idukki is my native town!! Its just that there r lot of tamil people who migrated here in the past.
@@sreekanthnlk3468 I am also from Kerala. The places shown are kambham in Tamil nadu.
@jayvir jadeja which is your state?
The sheer hard work and dedication of the farmers cultivating these cardamom fields is truly admirable. The serene beauty of the Idukki is just amazing and I can only imagine the wonderful aroma of the cardamom filling the air. As someone from Pakistan, I have always wanted to visit such beautiful places and experience the hard work and passion that goes into producing such amazing crops. Thank you for sharing this stunning video with us!
Love from Pakistan ❤️
Man I love having this thing in my tea 🫖
தமிழ் கேட்க எவ்வளவு இனிமை😍
“ Merku Thodarchi Malai” is a movie based on this exact story. Breaks my heart to see these guys struggle so much. I wish they can do a direct business with consumers and get what is rightfully theirs. It’s exactly like the story of how the Cocoa farmers struggle.
Thanks The Insider for covering the process of producing Cardamom. May be it would have sounded more better if you have covered more the challenges faced by farmers like us. Alas i got an International video to mouthshut people who always complain why Cardamom is costlier. Thanks for the coverage...
I love cardamom, my house never run out of it , I use it on my Tea , chicken soup, and a lot of other food and drinks
I bought one pouch of it about 100 grams and it was so expensive I was shocked. But now after this video it feels cheaper.
100gm cost just 3$ Here in Kerala bro.
@@wasimaliahmed 20 grams cost 1.5$ in my country. And it's the small ones with little seeds.
The voice over keeps mentioning IDUKKI district timely
But, neither in the locations shot nor in the narrative of the plantation owner is Kerala or malayalam is seen and can be heard
I suppose the locations are somewhere in THENI district of TAMIL NADU and the cultivator is TAMIL
To the editor -"Fact-find lacks I think so"
Rightly said, the video depicts Theni district.
No,the place where cardamom grown is in kerala but the farmer is tamil native and the scenery shown is tamil nadu. Most of the giant cardamom planters are from tamil nadu. I live in Idukki and the cardamom is grown in my place and also am a spices seller.
Iduki have huge Tamil population
വിട്ടു കള.... ഇതിനേക്കാൾ വലിയ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഇവിടെ ഉണ്ട്....
thank you so much for enlightening me, I will no longer be whining about it's high price.
Am a cardamom farmer from this particular area we farmers merely get 13$ per kg for last few months, but in 2019 price was above 50$ per kg.
This for us Malaysians are flavour bomb,some love it but mostly hate it if it is accidentally bitten 🙂🤟
Dude it’s the same thing in india I swear when I’m eating biryani those seeds man . Let’s just say it wasn’t a pleasant experience
I am Turkish, and when was in Malaysia, I would specifically fish for cardamom pods in curry and chew the hell out of it, just love its taste! I guess if you had it too much it's not so precious anymore.
@@ruhaanahmed1620 kannn it ruins our eating experience HAHAHAHA
@@AG-ig8uf I guess we’re more classed in our sipces
@@kirrr6346 lol
Amazing🌈 love from india TAMILNADU 💚
Baru tahu pokok buah pelaga mcm mana dan cara grading.
terima kasih BI sbb kongsi vid.
Love to hear stuff in my language!! ❤️❤️
it's so happy to hear Tamil from business insider's video
Who else feels massively guilty for throwing out the cardamom pods from their biryanis and mithaais? ✋✋✋ I had no idea that they took so much of laborious work.
Taking a moment to be grateful for all the privileges. 🙏🙏
that soil under the cardamom plants looks very rich, just like a fresh compost!
The closed canopy of century old shade trees, the shrub needs this climate for propagation and flowering. The soil is essentially compost enriched from leaves and branches.
Salute to these hard working farmers.