Bengaluru, Nov. 25: Apart from the coffee-growing southern Indian states in the country, the Coffee Board is also promoting coffee cultivation in the northeastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The Coffee Board of India has said that it aims to double the country's coffee production to 7 lakh tonnes by 2047. At present, 3.5 lakh tonnes of Arabica and Robusta varieties of coffee are being produced in about 4.05 lakh hectares of land in the country.
Speaking at the 67th Annual General Meeting of the Karnataka Planters Association (KPA) held in Bengaluru, Coffee Board of India President M.J. Dinesh said, “The board has an ambitious target of increasing our production to 7 lakh tonnes by 2047, when India celebrates 100 years of independence. Our aim is to achieve 15% of this 7 lakh tonnes as specialty coffee.”
To achieve this production target, the board has formulated a comprehensive action plan. He said that about 1 lakh hectares of area will be brought under cultivation in the northeastern states of Odisha and Nagaland. “We will increase the area under coffee cultivation in non-traditional areas and also increase coffee yields in the coffee growing districts of Karnataka like Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan,” Dinesh said.
Next month, the Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) in Balehonnur will release three new coffee varieties as part of its centenary programme, he said. “In the last century, our scientists have released 30 Arabica varieties and three Robusta varieties. CCRI has the best germplasm of over 400 varieties,” he said. The board is implementing clonal propagation of Robusta coffee seedlings in collaboration with Jain Irrigation Company, which could be released by 2026-27, he said.
The board is also designing the Indian Coffee Board Sustainability Certification Scheme (ICBSS) that will give a unique global identity to Indian coffee, Dinesh said. The board has also introduced the IndiaCoffee app to help growers and exporters meet the mandatory global traceability requirements of the European Union Deforestation Control (EUDC) standards, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Energy Minister K.J. George said that the branding of Araku Valley coffee growers Urging the state's coffee growing community to emulate the success, Bhaskar Bhat, director of Tata Sons and former managing director of Titan, said that coffee growers should focus on growing specialty and premium coffee crops to cater to the growing large and young population in the domestic market.
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