coffee in india

Coffee, which was brought in India by a Muslim pilgrim, BABA Budan on his return from Mecca, remained as a backyard plant until sometime. Later, it was developed into gardens. However, it was in 1820's that the commercial plantation was opened in south India with British enterprises and...

AREA UNDER CULTIVATION Coffee cultivation is mainly confined to the states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and Andra Pradesh and on limited scale to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Madya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Karnataka accounts for about 53 percent of planted area...

The province of Kaffa in Ethiopia is considered to be the original habitat of coffee Arabia (Arabica) and Central Africa is recognized to be the home of coffee conephora . The history of coffee dates back to 575 AD when the first1 cultivation was started in Yemen. This was the period when...