Coffee Planters

Sixty per cent of the world's coffee is produced by an estimated 12.5 million people working on farms no larger than 50 acres - and most far smaller than that - according to World Coffee Research

Growing discontent among coffee planters over unpaid dues from the government may emerge as a significant electoral issue in the Araku (ST) Lok Sabha constituency in Alluri Sitharama Raju district in Andhra Pradesh. The YSR Congress is aiming to score a hat trick in the segment while the NDA is slugging it out to wrest the seat from the ruling party. In 2019, YSRCP candidate G Madhavi won the seat with a margin of over two lakh votes. This time the ruling party has fielded Chetti Tanuja Rani, a doctor, while former MP Kothaplalli Geetha, a BJP contestant, was pitted against her by the NDA. Geetha won the seat in 2014 on YSRCP ticket and later floated her own outfit, which was merged with the BJP. The CPI (M), as part of the INDI alliance also fielded P Appala Narsa, who may potentially split the opposition votes. Perched at a height of 1000 m above sea level in the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, Araku boasts of producing coffee beans with distinctive flavours which has gained .

Today, March 11, Google Doodle celebrated 'flat white' coffee with an animated illustration. Flat white is a famous coffee based drink which started in Australia and New Zealand

The company currently operates over 390 stores across 54 Indian cities, including Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bengaluru

Coffee planters in Karnataka are unhappy with the Budget as the Central government has not fulfilled their demand of complete exemption from tax on sales of coffee in different forms

The new plan builds on a previous coffee-sustainability effort that started 12 years ago involving around 100,000 farmers; the goal is to double that in the coming years

There is little evidence efforts by the world's top coffee roasters to prevent human rights and environmental abuses are having any impact, with most farmers operating at a loss, a coffee report said

Kenya's coffee production is tumbling - the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts the 2019/20 harvest will hit a 57-year low.

The Board's estimate for Karnataka is 251,760 tonnes, from 221,745 tonnes last year