forest soils are found suitable for growing coffee in india.
forest soils are found suitable for growing coffee in india.
which soil is found suitable for growing coffee in india?
forest soils
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ceylon started planting coffee before south india, though there were small coffee gardens in mysore state and coorg long years before the 1830s when george bird opened up the first coffee estate in the island. by the 1860s, coffee was driving ceylon’s economy. it was from those estates that the blight slowly spread into the nilgiris. in south india, coffee on estate scale was first planted in 1798 by murdoch brown in anjaracandy in north malabar, but the effort did not take off. it was in the 1840s and 1850s that venturesome europeans got into growing coffee on plantation scale. by 1870, there were 20,000 hectares of coffee in mysore planted by europeans from 1854 and producing 6,000 tonnes. however, in the same territory, there were nearly 28,000 ‘native plantations’ with an area of 80,000 hectares and producing around 9,000 tonnes. much of this escaped the coffee blight, whose spread from the nilgiris was, fortuitously, slow. coffee planting in the nilgiris by “enthusiastic lunatics” began in the late 1850s and by 1863-64 there were 40 estates.
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