In the homeland of the Indian companion. Arrival of coffee to other areas

you are: In the homeland of the Indian companion

Gradually coffee tree from Bababudana has come to other areas of Karnataka, then in states Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Orissa. But 99 percent of the areas under coffee plantations are necessary on first three staff and still the best and most extensive plantations-in to Karnataka, especially in district Kurg. Karnataka gives more than 60 percent obshcheindijskogo coffee gathering.

In CHettali we have visited research station of coffee and its heads have told to us about the Indian coffee and the problems connected with it. Commercial manufacture of coffee in India was really developed last 150 years. For ten years, by 1869, the number of English plantations has grown with 7 to 662.

The Majority of foreign planters cared basically of profits. They were excited a little with questions of selection, struggle against illnesses and wreckers, and it had sad consequences. Coffee plantations began to perish. The area under them was reduced, productivity has sharply fallen.

Position has changed only after a gain India independence. New disease-resistant grades have been deduced, to be applied there were widely chemical fertilizers and means of struggle against weeds and wreckers. The government has accepted the program of the help credits to owners of the small plantations making the overwhelming majority. Now in India of 155 thousand hectares coffee plantations, and manufacture of coffee since thirtieth years more than has trebled. And though the share of India in coffee world production makes only two percent, nowadays it receives annually about 100 thousand tons of this valuable culture.

Despite many problems, coffee manufacture - perspective area. First, be considerable home market, secondly, in India still the big areas can are used under a bookmark of new plantations.