Coffee Cultivation in Kerala: Some Economic Aspects

Coffee production in India is mostly done in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu. It is one of the important commercial crops of Kerala and is the main source of income and employment to the people of three districts in Kerala. Coffee cultivation is not an easy business and is adversely affected by vari...

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Main Author: N Karunakaran
Format: Printed Book
Published: Artha-Journal of Social Sciences 2017
Subjects:
COFFEE BOARD; > PROFITABILITY
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/008342.pdf
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520 |a Coffee production in India is mostly done in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu. It is one of the important commercial crops of Kerala and is the main source of income and employment to the people of three districts in Kerala. Coffee cultivation is not an easy business and is adversely affected by various factors at present. Small coffee growers fail to acquire technological improvement to compensate labour scarcity and climate change and have limited access to technologies promoted by the Coffee Board of India due to high cost and mode of payment of subsidies.This study reveals that problems like scarcity of labour, pests and diseases, the high cost of production, low price for coffee, marketing difficulties and unusual climate changes often hurt coffee cultivators. However,the schemes and programmes of the coffee board benefited the growers. The analysis of the profitability of the crop shows that coffee cultivation is profitable in Kerala 
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