West Jaintia Hills

While your regular supermarket varieties of turmeric usually have 3% to 5% curcumin content, the Lakadong Turmeric powder sold by Shillong-based Zizira goes as high as 12%.

Meet Trinity Saioo who started lakadong turmeric cultivation in 2003. Today one thousand acre of land spread across Meghalaya is producing the turmeric that yields profitable returns.