Which is your favorite coffee shop in your area and why it is?

Questions to answer

 1.Do you know what kind/proportion of coffee you are being served in the coffee shop? 

2. Have you ever bothered to enquire about it?

        I.            If No, Why?

      II.            If Yes, When &Where?

3. Does the staff who served you is knowledgeable about it?   

How small and marginal planters can attract the foreign buyer’s/Market to their farm gate.

A fine suggestion for small coffee growers would be to profile their produce & the farm through professional assistance which will fetch them a much better value than the ruling market price and a specific buyer or buying market for your product.        

Do you know, Continent wise, coffee is grown in Laaaap not literally Lap, it’s Latin America, Africa, Arabia, Asia & Pacific.

Changes in Traditional Vs Non Traditional growing regions

Growing region changes during 2008-09, 2009-10 & 2010-11	2008-09	2009-10	YoY growth	2010-11	YoY growth
Traditional Areas	160750	160912	100.1008	161072	100.0994
Non Traditional Areas	79951	91139	113.9936	102887	112.8902
NER Region	5621	5621	100.0000	5606	99.7331

With the statistics, we come to know Non Traditional Areas are expanding their frontier on a year over year basis with shot in the arm in finding the buyers for their goods when compared to the traditional areas whose growth is stunt or on a marginal level. With the brisk expansion, non traditional areas next step would be to bring out specialty coffee out of their regions just similar to traditional one like Mysore nuggets, Pulneys, Anamalais, etc.

The best possible way for planters it may either be small, large, traditional or non traditional area growers, to find a quick market with a better pricing for their produce is by way of profiling their produce (coffee) and their growing areas. It would ease the process for buyer to decide whether to go for the bag or not as the buyer will know what kind of coffee beans he wants for his business.

Based on these statistics, we are given a healthy picture of small planters/farmers in the forefront in the coffee growing market but the story is the other way around where the large planters, middle-men & business conglomerate rule the market by way of contract farming of small holdings.

Coffee Plantation holding pattern in INDIA

Coffee Plantation holding pattern in INDIA	2007-08	% of total	2008-09	% of total	2009-10	% of total	2010-11	% of total
Small Holdings <10 hectares	218116	98.77	243648	98.91	255042	98.98	266936	99.02
Large Holdings >10 hectares	2709	1.23	2674	1.09	2630	1.02	2629	0.98
Total	220825	100	246322	100	257672	100	269565	100