Karnataka planters say Coffee Board output forecast inflated

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

Planters in Karnataka say the Coffee Board’s estimate of output in 2017-18, at 350,400 tonnes, is inflated. They put it at 312,000 tonnes.

The Board reports to the Union commerce ministry. It estimated a post-blossom crop of 103,100 tonnes Arabica and 247,300 tonnes of Robusta. The overall increase is 38,400 tonnes (12.3 per cent) over the final estimate of 2016-17. The rise, said the Board, would be mainly due to an additional 13,500 hectares in the traditional growing areas of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. 

This post-blossom estimation was in May 2017. Any crop losses since then would be estimated in the