{"id":211864,"date":"2022-10-26T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=211864"},"modified":"2022-10-26T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:45:30","slug":"answered-discuss-the-factors-affecting-coffee-cultivation-in-india-suggest-some-policy-measures-to-improve-coffee-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-discuss-the-factors-affecting-coffee-cultivation-in-india-suggest-some-policy-measures-to-improve-coffee-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Discuss the factors affecting Coffee cultivation in India. Suggest some policy measures to improve Coffee cultivation."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"616\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:\u00a0<\/strong>Write some factors affecting Coffee cultivation in India. Also write some policy measures to improve Coffee cultivation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>India is the third-largest producer and exporter of coffee in Asia, and the sixth-largest producer and fifth-largest exporter of coffee in the world. Coffee in India is traditionally grown in the rainforests of the\u00a0<strong>Western Ghats in <\/strong>South India. <strong>Karnataka (54%), Kerala (19%) and Tamil\u00a0Nadu (8%)<\/strong> are largest coffee producing states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Factors affecting Coffee cultivation in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Climate patterns:<\/strong> There were <strong>dry spells<\/strong> between 2015 and 2017 and <strong>unseasonal heavy rains<\/strong>, <strong>floods<\/strong> and landslides between 2018 and 2022. Frequently occurring pattern of droughts and floods could wipe out plantations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pests and diseases:<\/strong> Erratic weather conditions are helping pests to breed and new diseases to emerge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financing:<\/strong> Most private banks demand collateral for financing. Since small and medium-size growers are invariably not in a position to provide collateral, the interest rates are high, at around 12%. International interest rates, on the other hand, are negligible, mostly in single digits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost of production:<\/strong> high due to tough terrains where mechanisation is restricted. In Brazil, labour charges account for 25% of the entire production cost, but in India, planters say they account for about 65%.<\/li>\n<li>There is increasingly a <strong>shortage of labour<\/strong> while the cost of labour is on the rise in the coffee sector. The children of workers in all the three coffee-growing States prefer to move to urban areas. This means plantations are forced to depend heavily on migrant labours who are unskilled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Measures to improve Coffee cultivation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a need to take measures to <strong>increase domestic consumption<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Branding and promoting Indian coffee better in the global market by working on a <strong>separate India brand and certification system<\/strong> for coffee growers.<\/li>\n<li>Growers should <strong>create additional revenue streams<\/strong> through <strong>inter-cropping<\/strong> or through innovative measures. In addition to traditional inter-cropping of pepper and cardamom, coffee growers could try planting exotic fruit-bearing trees, or fish farming, dairy farming, or <strong>green tourism<\/strong> to increase incomes from their coffee gardens.<\/li>\n<li>Considering the change in land use, the government could permit growers to <strong>plant alternate crops i<\/strong>n a land not suitable for coffee cultivation. Timely conversion will prevent growers from going financially sick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coffee has high value and high imagery potential at home and overseas markets. India\u2019s share in the global coffee market may be less than 5%, but the Coffee Act and the new Coffee (Promotion and Development Bill), 2022, will do away the 80-year-old coffee regulation and usher in change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0Contextual introduction. Body:\u00a0Write some factors affecting Coffee cultivation in India. 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