Growth and decline
During the 1860s most of the planted coffees were Arabica (Old chicks), which had the bean qualities of the original mokka introduced by Baba Budan. Short’s (1864) modest estimate of…
Coffee in India
Baba Budan, who smuggled coffee beans from Arabia, is said to have planted coffee near his hermitage in Dattatreya peeta in what is present day Karnataka’s Chikmagalur area. However, it…
History Of Coffee Industry In India
Coffee and humans go back a long way-back to 800 A.D. Legend has it that an Ethiopian goatherd noticed that his goats were frisky after eating a certain berry. The…