In India, coffee has a place of pride among plantation crops grown and is traditionally cultivated on the south-western hill slopes under monsoon rainfall conditions, is also termed as “Indian monsooned coffee" since 150 years. Indian coffee is said to be the finest coffee grown in the shade rather than direct sunlight anywhere in the world. The two well known species of coffee grown are the Arabica and Robusta. The first variety that was introduced in the Baba Budan Giri hill ranges of Karnataka in the 17th century was marketed over the years under the brand names of Kent and S.795. Coffee production in India stood at 316,000 metric tonnes (MT) in 2017-18. Robusta variety accounted for 221,000 MT (70 per cent) of this production, while Arabica accounted for 95,000 MT (30 per cent). India has emerged as the seventh largest coffee producer globally; after Brazil, Vietnam, Columbia, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Honduras. It accounted for 3.3 per cent of production and 5.4 per cent of global exports in 2017-18.Arabica coffee is also well received in the international market. In short Indian coffee is well known for its quality and is much in demand in the international market. Therefore, India exports coffee to a large number of countries including U.K., the U.S.A., Russia, Australia, Iraq and a large number of countries of continental Europe. Export earnings have increased from Rs 2070.68 crore in 2009-10 to Rs 6210.23 crore in 2017-18. Italy was the largest export market for Indian coffee, importing 80,099 MT (20.28% of India’s total exports) in 2017-18. Coffee research and development efforts are well organised in India through its Coffee Research Institute, which is considered the premier research station in South East Asia. It is under the control of the Coffee Board of India, an autonomous body, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. There are many problems in Indian coffee production and distribution; therefore needs more suitable govt. policy measures, research, development and extension activities to augment coffee production, distribution and export as well as making people (especially coffee cultivators) more aware on coffee cultivation.
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