Horti Research Centre Llp

We are based up in the hills at the Horti Research Centre Llp. Our office is situated in the Manjadiyil Building, which is Door No. Vi/16 in Chettukuzhy. It’s near the Kochara post office in Idukki. Working in Idukki is nice because the air is fresh, but the terrain can be a bit of a struggle when you are moving around. We are basically a group of people who are interested in how things grow. It isn't a high-tech lab with shining white floors. Our place is more about practical testing and seeing what actually works in the soil here. We spend a lot of our time outdoors, getting our hands dirty and checking on the various plants we have under observation. The weather up here changes fast. One minute it's sunny, and the next, the mist is so thick you can't see the next building. We’ve been here for quite some time now. The building is just a regular local structure, nothing that would stand out to a tourist. We handle all our own research and record-keeping without any big corporate help. Sometimes we sit around in the evening just talking about why one batch of seeds did better than the other. It’s a slow kind of work that requires a lot of patience. We just keep doing what we do, trying to learn something new every season. It's a quiet life in Chettukuzhy and we like it.