COFFEE

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 Overview
 Production Centers
 Domestic Industry
 Trend in Export
 Major Export Destinations
 Export from India for last three years
 Major Competitors in the global market
 Provisions in India’s Foreign Trade Policy
 Quality Standards
 Problems / Challenges faced by the exporter
 Relevant News articles
Coffee
Indian coffee is the most
extraordinary of beverages,
offering intriguing subtlety and
stimulating intensity. India is the
only country that grows all of its
coffee under shade. Typically
mild and not too acidic, these
coffees possess an exotic full-
bodied taste and a fine aroma.
 Indian coffee has a unique historic
flavour too! It all began with a long,
arduous journey around four hundred
years ago... when the legendary saint
Bababudan brought seven magical
beans from distant Yemen and planted
them in the Chandragiri hills of
Karnataka. The sensations of aroma,
flavour, body and acidity that you
enjoy with each coffee experience is
rooted in these mystical beginnings.
 It is often said, the Indian coffee
grower pours his life into the crop. Is
it any wonder then that India has
consistently produced and exported a
remarkable variety of high-quality
coffees for over one hundred and fifty
years!
India cultivates all of its coffee under
a well-defined two-tier mixed shade
canopy, comprising evergreen
leguminous trees. Nearly 50 different
types of shade trees are found in
coffee plantations.
Important Varieties
 Kents: Kents is the earliest variety of
Arabica, selected by an English planter
of the same name during the 1920s.
This variety remained popular with the
planting community till the 1940s,
because it was less susceptible to rust.
Today, it is grown in a few areas but it
is still known for its exceptional cup
quality.
 S.795: This is by far the most popular
Arabica selection released during the
1940s with high yields, bold beans,
superior quality and relative tolerance
to leaf rust. This selection was
developed using ‘Kents’ Arabica,
known for its high quality. Even
today, the S.795 is a favourite with
the planters and is a widely cultivated
Arabica variety. S.795 has a balanced
cup with subtle flavour notes of
Mocca.
 Cauvery: Popularly known as
Catimor, Cauvery is a descendant of a
cross between ‘Caturra’ and
‘Hybrido-de-Timor’. Caturra is a
natural mutant of the famous Bourbon
variety. Thus, Cauvery inherited the
high yielding and superior quality
attributes of Caturra and the resistance
of ‘Hybrido-de-Timor’.
 Sln.9: Selection 9 is a derivative of a
cross between an Ethiopian Arabica
collection, ‘Tafarikela’, and
‘Hybrido-de-Timor’. Sln.9 has
inherited all the superior cup quality
traits of Tafarikela. This variety has
won the Fine Cup Award for best
Arabica at the ‘Flavour of India -
Cupping Competition 2002’
organised by Coffee Board of India.
Overview
 6th Largest – Producing 4% Of The
Total World Production.
 1,70,000 Coffee Farms & 9,00,000
Acres Of Land Having The Coffee
Trees.
 90% Of The Production Comes From
The Smaller Growers.