India’s coffee production may fall by as much as 20% on year after massive floods hit some of the country’s key producing area damaging the crop and delaying exports.
According to reports, some of the worst flooding in a century claimed hundreds of victims in the southern states of Karnataka and Kerala that account together for over 90% of India’s total production
Worst hit are the regions of Kodagu in Karnataka and Wayanad in Kerala, while the Chikmagalur and Hassan districts in Karnataka also reported damage on limited scale.
“Earlier we were expecting better crop this year,” Ramesh Rajah, president of the Coffee Exporters’ Association of India, told Reuters. “Now we are expecting at least 20% drop in production.”
“The unprecedented rain has resulted in devastation of coffee plantations of unimaginable proportion. Coffee plants have also been uprooted in vast areas,” said HT Pramod, Chairman, Karnataka Planters Association (KPA), the apex body of planters in the state.
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