Pepper

Pepper is cultivated as an intercrop with coffee, where the pepper vines grow on the shade trees planted to provide natural shade to coffee. Being a large grower, Tata Coffee has the infrastructure for value addition, mechanised de-corning and hygienic processing.Tata Coffee Limited has 13.5 lakh tree standards with pepper with an annual production of 1,000 metric tonnes. 25 per cent of the produce is converted into value addition like white pepper, dehydrated green pepper, and pepper in brine. Post harvest processingCentralised grading and cleaning facilities are mechanised, backed with a state of art Quality Control Laboratory.Pepper gradesA small quantity of pepper is also grown organically to cater to niche markets. Black pepper 11.75 size 11.5 size 10.0 size Lights size White pepper A1 grade A2 grade A3 grade Lights grade

Pepper is cultivated as an intercrop with coffee, where the pepper vines grow on the shade trees