As the months of social distancing and work from home stretches on following the limited opening up of the economy to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, more and more people are turning into their own baristas. Instant, artisanal, filter coffees and coffee beans are flying off the shelves at grocery marts as stay-at-home […]
India’s Board’s final crop estimate based on crop harvest for 2017-18 is placed at 316,000 tonnes comprising 95,000 tonnes of arabica and 221,000 tonnes of robusta. There is an overall decline of 34,400 tonnes (-9.82 per cent) over the post blossom estimate of 2017-18 which projected 350,400 tonnes, said a statement from the board. The […]
State-run Coffee Board of India has estimated India’s coffee output to climb 12 percent to a record high of 350,400 tonnes in the 2017-18 year contrary to the views held by growers. The figure includes 103,100 tonnes of arabica and 247,300 tonnes of the robusta variety, the Board said. The rise in the estimate is […]
Boosting domestic consumption is crucial to protecting the interests of coffee growers, a newspaper quoted MS Boje Gowda,the newly appointed chairman of the Coffee Board, as saying. After 70 years, the Coffee Board has a grower as its chief in Boje Gowda, who is third generation planter. Till recently, bureaucrats headed the apex decision-making body […]
The state-run Coffee Board has partnered with the Indian Space Research Organisation’s National Remote Sensing Centre to carry out geospatial mapping to estimate the latest inventory of the plantations. The government has begun mapping coffee plantations inventory across the country through remote sensing as the cultivation of the beverage crop has moved beyond the traditional […]
Higher global prices for both Arabica and Robusta varieties, coupled with a smaller domestic crop, are seen pushing prices of coffee in India to their highest levels this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a report. It forecast the Indian coffee crop for marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (Oct/Sep) at 5.1 million 60-kg […]
India is expected to produce 320,000 tonnes of coffee beans in the 2016-17 marketing year, down 8 percent from last year because of poor rains and dry conditions, the Coffee Board said. It said in a statement that India is expected to produce 100,000 tonnes of arabica and 220,000 tonnes of robusta in the year […]
