THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)
(a) : Yes, Sir. The Government through Coffee Board is implementing Integrated Coffee Development Project which inter-alia includes the following activities :
(i) In traditional coffee growing areas financial support is provided for replantation, water augmentation and eco-certification of coffee. Support is also provided for marketing of coffee on community basis by Small Growers’ Collectives / Self Help Groups (SHGs) / Cooperatives.
(ii) In Non-traditional areas of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha support is provided for coffee expansion (new coffee planting) and consolidation, quality up-gradation (purchase of baby pulpers and construction of cement drying yards) and Eco-Certification / Organic Certification. Support is also provided for marketing of coffee on community basis by Self Help Groups (SHGs) / TribalGrowers collectives
Support is also provided for installing Roasting, Grinding and Packing Machinery.
(b) : Various interventions such as research & development, technology transfer, capacity building, support for value addition etc. are undertaken for overall improvement of production, productivity and quality of coffee. Coffee Board has launched Coffee Connect – Field Force Mobile App to provide advisories on production related aspects to the coffee growers. The Board has also launched a Web-portal namely, KSHEMAM (Kaapi Soil Health Monitoring and Management) which enable the growers to access the soil fertility status of their areas/ plantations and download the soil health cards.
(c) : Government has taken measures to boost the production and export of coffeeby the way of providing financial and technical assistance to the growers and the industry for replanting, water augmentation, expansion & consolidation of holdings in non-tradition and North Eastern Region, value addition and market promotion. Details of financial and technical assistance provided by the coffee Board during the last three years are given in Annexure I and Annexure-II respectively.
(d) : As per the post-monsoon estimation (during December 2019) done by the Coffee Board, the estimated crop for the year 2018-19 is 3,19,500 tonnes which is about 16% less than the post-blossom estimation of 3,80,000 tonnes carried out during May 2018.
(e) : Coffee exports in a particular year are generally contributed by the current year coffee production as well as the stock of previous year. Accordingly, the dip in production during 2018-19 may effect export during 2019-20. As per the export permits issued by the Coffee Board upto December 31, 2019, the coffee exportsfor the year 2019-20 (241.367 MT) have declined by 1.41% over the corresponding period of previous year i.e., 2018-19 (244.837 MT). The volume of India’s coffee exports during last three years is as follows:
Year Quantity (MT)
2016-17 3,44,870
2017-18 3,91,815
2018-19* 3,53,795
Source: Coffee Board
*Provisional based on export permits issued.
Note: The total coffee exports include export of Indian coffees as well as re-export of imported coffees after value addition;
Annexure-I
Financial Assistance provided by the Coffee Board during the last three years
Activities Physical and Financial (Rs.in lakhs)
2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
(Till 31.12.2019)
P F P F P F
Traditional area:
Replantation/ Expansion (in ha.) 2936 4289.72 1829 2724.43 185.25 104.42
Water Augmentation (Nos.) 4852 3036 606 386.19
Quality Up-gradation (Pulpers/ Drying Yards) (Nos.) 2591 1115 - -
Pollution Abatement (Nos.) 14 15 - -
Eco-Certification (Nos.) 2 - - -
Support for Mechanisation (Nos.) 3787 771 - -
Labour welfare measures 3017 4329 944 30.32
Interest Subsidy (Nos.) 1051 284 1217 -
Export incentives :
a) Value added coffee (MT) 3547 206.96 3484 215.48 240.85 7.23
b) Green coffee (MT) 5028 5548 4885 51.27
Value Addition - 69.90 22 131.95 - -
Non-traditional area
Expansion (in ha.) 2.86 33.54 2386.72 560.00 3998.8 252.5
Quality Up-gradation (Pulpers/ Drying Yards) (Nos.) 1420 83 18.30
P-Physical; F-Financial Source: Coffee Board
Annexure-II
Technical / advisory / entrepreneurship training provided by the Coffee Board during the last three years
2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
(Till 31.12.2019 Total
1 Seed coffee production (in MT.) 17.82 15.148 6.44 39.408
2 Supply of rooted clones (CxR) 44461 35116 29007 108584
3 Soil / leaf analysis & Agro chemical analysis 10022 9128 2179 21329
4 Broco/ pheromone traps 62800 38207 12352 113359
5 Quality Analysis of Coffee samples 772 421 291 1484
6 Calibration of Moisture metere 114 109 118 341
7 Estate Visits 27000 30243 14838 72081
8 Field Demonstrations 3124 3191 1895 8210
9 Advisory Letters 229 374 441 1044
10 Group Meetings/ Seminars/ Village Level Meetings 644 463 2833 3940
11 Media Campaigns (Print/ Electronic/ Social Media) 717 586 366 1669
12 Training Programmes 238 351 2760 3349
13 Vocational Training Programme for Workers/ Growers 43 38 14 95
14 Exposure visit to model estate / TEC / Res. Station 70 122 37 229
15 Entrepreneur training programme 53 0 20 73
16 Kaapi Shastra Training programme 111 55 96 262
Source: Coffee Board
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