 Later, Cardamom cultivation as a commercial enterprise flourished in the early decades of the twentieth century with the expansion of the market for spices.The place called near Mannathara "Kanam" refers back to the Elakananm (cardamom plantation) existed in the pre-1980s period.Migration of the peasants in the 1950s and 1960s was the major turning point in the history of this forest hilly region into an agrarian village.