COFFEE LIFE - 3 

PROCESSING OF COFFEE:

1. Nurture the Sappling

2  Plant them 










3.Sprinkler Irrigation -  Fertilizers/Spray











4. Removing Weeds













5. Flowering season – Fruit (cherry)

                      

  






6. Pulper: The upper layer of the fruit gets  seperated (opens up). Coffee bean or the seed   inside is made to dry and is exported for   further process. This bean is called Parchment. 

                                                                                                             

7. Roasting 

8. Powder: Chikori/ Cafin (15%)

Coffee Life - 2 

COFFEE in INDIA:

It was during 18th century that the commercial plantations of coffee were started, thanks to the success of British entrepreneurs in conquering the hostile forest terrain in south India. 

Since then, Indian coffee industry has made rapid strides and earned a distinct identity in the coffee map of the world. 

Coffee in India is grown under a canopy of thick natural shade in ecologically sensitive regions of the Western and Eastern Ghats. This is one of the 25 biodiversity hotspots of the world. Coffee contributes significantly to sustain the unique bio- diversity of the region and is also responsible for the socio-economic development in the remote, hilly areas.

In India, coffee is traditionally grown in the Western Ghats spread over Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Coffee cultivation is also being expanding rapidly in the nontraditional areas of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as well as in the North East states.

Places: 

Manjarabad (Karnataka):  Gentle sloping terrain with small streams and coffee plants provide a natural habitat for the jungle fowl.This yellow-headed bird with a red comb and multi-coloured plumage is generally seen in pairs, close to the coffee plantations.

Coorg (Karnataka):  Lush coffee plantations are bustling with honeybees which yield the delicious Coorg Honey, collected by nimble-footed tribals.

Chikmagalur (Karnataka):  Chikmagalur’s forests and wildlife sanctuaries are abundant with beautiful peacocks.

Biligiris (Karnatka/Tamil Nadu):  Besides full-bodied Arabicas, this region is noted for the sambar - the largest Indian deer with huge antlers.

Bababudangiris (Karnataka):  Bababudan brought seven ‘magical’ beans from Yemen and planted them in the lofty hills of this region. Deer is often spotted here, grazing alongside plantations abundant with full-bodied Arabicas.

Anamalais (Tamil Nadu) and Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu): Wildlife sanctuaries in this region are the abode of spotted leopards,while the plantations are home to fine, high-grown Arabicas,including the exotic Kents.

Brahmaputra:  The mighty Brahmaputra which flows through the North Eastern states and is condusive to grow coffee.

SOUTH INDIAN COFFEE:

South Indian coffee, also known as Kaapi (South Indian phonetic rendering of "coffee'), Mysore filter coffee or Madras kaapi or simply filter coffee, is a sweet milky coffee made from dark roasted coffee beans (70–80%) and chicory (20–30%),especially popular in the southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. 

The most commonly used beansare Arabica and Robusta grown in the hills of Karnataka (Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan), Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris District, Yercaud and Kodaikanal) and Kerala (Malabar region).
Coffee is something of a cultural icon in Karnataka,  Andhra Pradesh,  Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is customary to offer a cup of coffee to any visitor. Coffee was originally introduced by Baba Budan to chikmagalur (Karnataka) in 17th century and became very popular under the British Rule. Until the middle of the 20th century traditional households would not use granulated sugar but used jaggery or honey, in coffee.


Coffee is predominantly an export oriented commodity and 65% to 70% of coffee produced in the country is exported while the rest is consumed within the country.

Indian coffee has created a niche for itself in the international market and the Indian Coffees are earning high premium, particularly Indian Robusta which is highly preferred for its good blending quality. Arabica Coffee from India is also well received in the international market. 

COFFEE LIFE  

Coffee is a beverage  prepared from the roasted or baked seeds of several species of an evergreen shrub. The two most common sources of coffee beans are the highly regarded Coffea arabica, and the "robusta" form of the hardier Coffea canephora. Coffee plants are cultivated in more than 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Once ripe, coffee"berries" are picked, processed and dried to yield the seeds inside. The seeds are then roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor, before being ground and brewed to create coffee.

Myth: Kaldi was an Ethiopian goatherd who discovered the coffee plant, according to popular legend.. Kaldi, noticing that when his flock nibbled on the bright red berries of a certain bush they became more energetic (jumping goats), chewed on the fruit himself. His exhilaration prompted him to bring the berries to an Islamic monk in a nearby monastery, but the monk disapproved of their use and threw them into a fire, from which an enticing aroma billowed. The roasted beans were quickly raked from the embers, ground up, and dissolved in hot water, yielding the world's first cup of coffee.

BRIEF HISTORY:

   

The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha in Yemen. It was here in Arabia that coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed, in a similar way to how it is now prepared. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. Coffee seeds were first exported from Ethiopia to Yemen. Yemen traders brought coffee back to their homeland and began to cultivate the seed. The first coffee smuggled out of the Middle East was by Sufi Baba Budan from Yemen to India in 1670. Before then, all exported coffee was boiled or otherwise sterilised. Portraits of Baba Budan depict him as having smuggled seven coffee seeds by strapping them to his chest. The first plants grown from these smuggled seeds were planted in Chikmagalur.Coffee then spread to Italy, and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas.

It is derived by  Italian  word caffe. There are many terms used in Arabic and Turkish language. Here in India, the local slang of calling South Indian Filter Coffee is Kaapi.

In the United States, September 29 is celebrated as "National Coffee Day."