{"id":35891,"date":"2025-01-21T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=35891"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:21:20","slug":"india-became-the-7th-largest-producer-of-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/21-01-2025\/india-became-the-7th-largest-producer-of-coffee","title":{"rendered":"India Became the 7th Largest Producer of Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As per the Commerce and Industry Ministry, India is now the <strong>seventh-largest coffee producer globally,<\/strong> with exports reaching 1.29 billion dollars in the last financial year.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is nearly double the 719 million dollars worth of exports in 2020-21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Top buyers include <strong>Italy, Belgium, and Russia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India primarily exports<strong> unroasted coffee beans, <\/strong>there is a growing demand for <strong>value-added products like roasted and instant coffee.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Domestic consumption <\/strong>has also increased due to the rise of <strong>caf\u00e9 culture, higher disposable incomes, and a growing preference for coffee over tea in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Coffee Production<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Brazil<\/strong> is the world\u2019s largest coffee producer, contributing about 40% of global production, <strong>followed by Vietnam.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India produces two <strong>types of coffee: Arabica and Robusta.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coffee is predominantly an<strong> export oriented commodity<\/strong> and <strong>65% to 70%<\/strong> of coffee produced in the country is exported.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Areas: <\/strong>Coffee is traditionally grown in the Western Ghats spread over <strong>Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is also grown in the nontraditional areas of <strong>Andhra Pradesh and Odisha<\/strong> as well as in the <strong>North East states.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leading States:<\/strong> Karnataka leads in coffee production, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Climatic Conditions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coffee plants thrive in <strong>temperatures ranging from 15\u00b0C to 24\u00b0C<\/strong>. Extreme temperatures outside this range can adversely affect growth and yield.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India cultivates all of its coffee under a <strong>well-defined two-tier mixed shade canopy,<\/strong> comprising evergreen leguminous trees.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shade trees <strong>prevent soil erosion<\/strong> on a sloping terrain; they enrich the soil by recycling nutrients from deeper layers, protecting the coffee plant from seasonal fluctuations in temperature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Coffee Board of India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Government of India established the \u2018Coffee Board\u2019 through a constitutional act <strong>\u201cCoffee Act VII of 1942\u201d<\/strong> under the administrative control of the <strong>Ministry of Commerce and Industry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Board comprises 33 members including the Chairman and the Secretary &amp; Chief Executive Officer.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is an organisation that <strong>promotes coffee production in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/india-becomes-7th-largest-producer-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the Commerce and Industry Ministry, India is now the seventh-largest coffee producer globally, with exports reaching 1.29 billion dollars in the last financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35892,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891\/revisions\/35892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}