Name of the Tea Estate : Sholayar Estate
Address : Sholayar Estate , Sholayar Post,Valparai – 642 124
Location : Anamalai Hills, Coimbatore Dist, Tamilnadu, India
Year of Acquisition : 1946
Features : Cultivation Of Green Leaf & Tea Manufacturing
Area under cultivation of tea : 395.79
Area under irrigation : Nil
Gross yield : 3570
Awards and Achievements : Award for highest yield in 1971
Certificates Awarded : FIRST ISO 9002 IN PLANTATION & FACTORY
Welfare Activities :
Present Executives and their contact details :
S.K.Kardile, Group Manager
Phone: 04253-221026
04253-221030
S.N. JAGETIYA, Commercial Manager
Phoine: 04253 -221026
04253 -221030
Name of the Tea Estate : Kallyar Estate
Address : Sholayar Estate , Sholayar Post,Valparai – 642 124
Location : Anamalai Hills, Coimbatore Dist,Tamilnadu, India
Year of Acquisition : 1946
Features : Cultivation Of Green Leaf & Tea Manufacturing
Area under cultivation of tea : 293.22
Area under irrigation : Nil
Gross yield : 3487
Awards and Achievements :
Certificates Awarded : FIRST ISO 9002 IN PLANTATION & FACTORY
Welfare Activities :
Present Executives and their contact details :
S.K.Kardile, Group Manager
Phone: 04253-221026
04253-221030
S.N. JAGETIYA, Commercial Manager
Phoine: 04253-221026
04253-221030
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These estates are located in the picturesque Anamallai Hills 110 Km from Coimbatore and 150 Km from Cochi. The average elevation of these estates is 3500 to 4000 feet above MSL and the annual rainfall varies between 110 – 150 inches. The minimum temperature falls to 60C and the maximum temperature goes up to 290c during summer. Anamallai Dist is the highest tea yielding district in the whole of India and most of the gardens are managed by big corporates. This district has two growing season, April to June and Oct to Dec.
Sholayar / Kallyar is the earliest purchased properties of our company. These south units were purchased in the year 1946 from the Managing Agent M/s Harrisons & Cross field. The total planted area for both these estates put together is 1730.05 acres, most of it planted during the First World War time from 1914 to 1918.
Sholayar / Kallyar estates were the first to introduce CTC type of manufacturing in South India during 1958.
Sholayar / Kallyar Estates are the first recipients in the world of the coveted ISO 9002 Certificate for a composite unit of plantations and tea factories