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Flood damage may slash India’s coffee output by 20%
Why in the news ?
- According to the Industrial officials, India’s coffee production in 2018-19 is likely to fall by at least one-fifth from a year earlier as floods in key producing states damaged the crop and delayed exports.
Details
- Kerala and Karnataka account for 90% of country’s production.
- The worst flooding in Kerala took hundreds of lives and badly affected the cultivation area.
- President of the Coffee Exporters’ Association of India, told that they are expecting at least 20% drop in production.
- Severe crop loss was reported in the coffee-growing regions of Kodagu in Karnataka and Wayanad in Kerala, while the Chikmagalur and Hassan districts in Karnataka also reported damage on limited scale.
Coffee Industry in India
- India is the third-largest producer and exporter of coffee in Asia, and the seventh-largest producer and fifth-largest exporter of coffee in the world.
- The country accounts for 3.66 per cent (2017) of the global coffee production.
- The coffee production in FY 2017-18 is estimated at 316,000 million tonnes (MT), as against 312,000 million tonnes in FY 2016-17.
- Italy, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, USA, Poland, Libya, Spain and Indonesia are the leading importers of Indian coffee.
- Of the total coffee produced in India, around 70 per cent is exported while the remaining 30 per cent is consumed domestically.
- In India, coffee is grown in regions that receive 2,500–4,000mm rainfall across more than 100 days, followed by a continuous dry period of a similar duration.
- Coffee growing areas in the country have diverse climatic conditions, which are suitable for the cultivation of different varieties of coffee.
Source
The Hindu, IBEF