Sahakari Spice Farm
Working spice plantation of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and pepper, toured on foot amid elephant baths and rides.
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This guide to Sahakari Spice Farm in Goa traces how forty-six hectares of near-worthless scrubland became a working plantation after local farmers took it over in nineteen seventy-nine, betting spice would pay wages that the land never had. Walking the paths puts you alongside the harvesters' daily jobs: cinnamon peelers working a technique passed down through families, and clove pickers racing the clock to catch the buds at their most potent hour. Near the elephant enclosure, mahouts share their own long working day with animals brought in from outside the state. It's less a garden tour than a walk through other people's livelihoods.
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