The development of coffee in India-what are the main growing areas of coffee?

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The growth and decline of Coffee Industry in India

Like Indonesian coffee, India's coffee industry has experienced ups and downs. This has led to huge wealth fluctuations in India's coffee industry. At first, most commercial coffee was grown in Arabica, and plantations were mainly distributed in the mountains of present-day Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Until 1860, white stem disease, green disease and leaf rust posed a serious threat to the booming coffee industry. Over the next few years, the continued destruction of white stem and leaf rust dealt an almost devastating blow to Arabica plantations, coffee production was severely reduced and acreage began to decline sharply. Until 1900, the government came forward to look for remedies and introduced a large number of Robusta plants from Indochina area (Indo-China Peninsula), which led to the rapid development of the coffee industry in India. To this day, the annual coffee production in India accounts for 25% of the total output in Asia, ranking second in Asia. Indian coffee maintains a unique identity on the world coffee map.

Main planting areas:

1) Coffee growing areas in India can be divided into three different categories

1 traditional planting areas in the south: such as Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and so on.

As the main coffee growing area, the coffee planting area is more than 90%, and the coffee output accounts for 95% of the country's total output.

2 non-traditional planting areas in the east: including Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and other areas. Few plants are planted.

(3) traditional planting areas in the southeast: Mizoram, Tripla, Meghalaya and other areas. Few plants are planted, mainly Robosta species.

2) Coffee cultivation in India has more than quadrupled in the past 60 years, with an area of about 400000 hectares. Among them, the planting area of Arabica is gradually shrinking, accounting for about 40% of the total planting area. Roberta's acreage is expanding, accounting for about 60% of the total acreage.