Hello Friends,
Presumably all of you are seeing the media coverage of the impact of the agitations on this issue in the Cumbum Valley area. We have not had any problems at our farms as of date and things seem to be cooling off now. However many farms owned by Keralites have suffered damages on infrastructure, equipments and standing crops.
Some of the steps we had taken right from the beginning may have stood to our advantage. We employ hundred percent local employees including supervisors. We have maintained good relationships with our neighbouring farms and have worked together with them for common causes.We have carried with us a very influential local person who helped us consolidate the holdings and still work closely with him and so on and so forth.
Work on all farms are at a standstill since last Sunday which is the last time we could visit the farm as traffic between the states still remains disrupted. Local activists discourage local workers from going to and working on Keralite farms and with the workers not being able to cross the border to work on Cardamom estates in Kerala there is also a developing distress which should all favour a quick resolution of the local interstate movement and work related issues hopefully.
Work is light at this period because of winter months. Our early season nursery is starting to become ready for replanting and we have started doing this in a small way yesterday with one local worker who is on our rolls. However we need to be planting our main nurseries within the next two weeks to be able to plant for the next cropping season by mid January and we are hoping that issues would get sorted out by then.
Will keep you posted through this site more frequently in December till such time as things return to normalcy. We believe our investments can pass through this phase safely and continue with our plans albeit by arranging for more local participation in managing the farms and more transfer of knowledge to local supervisors for implementation on the field.
We are adjusting suitably and proactively and will keep updating progress.
Thank you
Rajesh
Presumably all of you are seeing the media coverage of the impact of the agitations on this issue in the Cumbum Valley area. We have not had any problems at our farms as of date and things seem to be cooling off now. However many farms owned by Keralites have suffered damages on infrastructure, equipments and standing crops.
Some of the steps we had taken right from the beginning may have stood to our advantage. We employ hundred percent local employees including supervisors. We have maintained good relationships with our neighbouring farms and have worked together with them for common causes.We have carried with us a very influential local person who helped us consolidate the holdings and still work closely with him and so on and so forth.
Work on all farms are at a standstill since last Sunday which is the last time we could visit the farm as traffic between the states still remains disrupted. Local activists discourage local workers from going to and working on Keralite farms and with the workers not being able to cross the border to work on Cardamom estates in Kerala there is also a developing distress which should all favour a quick resolution of the local interstate movement and work related issues hopefully.
Work is light at this period because of winter months. Our early season nursery is starting to become ready for replanting and we have started doing this in a small way yesterday with one local worker who is on our rolls. However we need to be planting our main nurseries within the next two weeks to be able to plant for the next cropping season by mid January and we are hoping that issues would get sorted out by then.
Will keep you posted through this site more frequently in December till such time as things return to normalcy. We believe our investments can pass through this phase safely and continue with our plans albeit by arranging for more local participation in managing the farms and more transfer of knowledge to local supervisors for implementation on the field.
We are adjusting suitably and proactively and will keep updating progress.
Thank you
Rajesh
