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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 :

  • Incentive for excellence in work: Apart from their normal incentive, extra incentives are given to meritorious workers. This encourages other workers also to fall in the line of good performers. Workers turning up regularly to work (outturn), workers plucking highest green leaf in a year and those workers plucking more than 100 kg daily are given special prizes.
  • Best line maintenance: A sort of competition programme is organized for improving the sanitation and maintenance of the labor lines. Best lines are awarded with prizes and above all, Chairman, Managing Director, President visit and share a cup of tea with the awardees. An unbelievable and thrilling event for a worker.
  • Health awareness programme: These are conducted periodically on a continued basis to inculcate a culture among the workforce for preventive measures against normal ailments.

  • 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 :

  • 1966 -1967, 1978 & 87 Tea Board Trophy for highest yield per hectare in India
  • 1968 Federation of Indian chamber of commerce and Industry Award for outstanding achievement in the field of agriculture for highest yield of tea in India. The award was presented by the Hon'ble prime Minister of India, Smt. Indira Gandhi on March 15, 1969
  • 1987 Tea Board Chairman's Challenge Trophy for highest all India average yield
  • Award for highest price in 1975

  • Certificates Awarded : FIRST ISO 9002 IN PLANTATION & FACTORY

    Welfare Activities :

  • Incentive for excellence in work: Apart from their normal incentive, extra incentives are given to meritorious workers. This encourages other workers also to fall in the line of good performers. Workers turning up regularly to work (outturn), workers plucking highest green leaf in a year and those workers plucking more than 100 kg daily are given special prizes.
  • Best line maintenance: A sort of competition programme is organized for improving the sanitation and maintenance of the labor lines. Best lines are awarded with prizes and above all, Chairman, Managing Director, President visit and share a cup of tea with the awardees. An unbelievable and thrilling event for a worker.
  • Health awareness programme: These are conducted periodically on a continued basis to inculcate a culture among the workforce for preventive measures against normal ailments.

  • 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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    Short Story of this garden

    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

     
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