A small-batch roastery turning Wayanad's GI Robusta into a roasted single-origin D2C brand, selling to specialty cafes and online subscribers rather than dumping green beans into the commodity auction at curing-yard prices.
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Pick the stronger single thread — the coffee — and treat tribal homestays as a separate venture, not a bolted-on second operating model. Wayanad's hill belt produces GI-tagged Robusta plus smallholder Arabica, almost all of which leaves as green beans into the commodity pool, where the district's name earns no premium. This roastery builds on the Wayanad Robusta coffee belt (GI) atom and captures the raw beans → roasted single-origin brand gap, running a 10-15 kg/day roaster that sources traceable single-estate lots, roasts to profile, and sells under a Wayanad-origin brand to specialty cafes, modern grocers, and online subscribers. The honest constraints, consistent with the modest capex and three-year payback, are real: building cupping and roast-profiling skill (Robusta is unforgiving and easy to over-roast), green-bean moisture and defect grading, consistent supply contracts with estates, and slow D2C brand-building against established south-Indian roasters. The Coffee Board's small-roastery support eases equipment cost. Buyers: third-wave cafes, premium retail, diaspora gifting, and subscription drinkers. Pepper from the same farms can become a complementary spice line once roasting is steady.
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