A typical Areca plantation. These trees resembles coconut trees but much thinner.
Climbing the tree to pick the Arecanut bunches.
Arecanut bunches.
Raw Arecanut with skin. (Tender Arecanut is green in colour and skinning is easy)
Raw Arecanut with skin. (Ripe Arecanut is yellow in colour and difficult to skin)
Tool used to skin the raw Arecanut by hand.
Raw Arecanut with skin.
Different stages of skinning (Each by hand)
Raw skinned Arecanut ready to be boiled
Boiling the Arecanut in natural Arecanut extract. This is red-maroon in colour
Boiled Arecanut is kept in sun. This is usually dried in sun for 6-7 days
Dried Arecanut
Dried Arecanut (Uncut)
Packed and flavored.
