Context: The Coffee Board is conducting extensive awareness and capacity-building programmes to boost the number of growers registering on its mobile application for EUDR compliance.
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- The Coffee Board’s mobile app includes a feature that allows exporters and growers to register and upload geo-location data.
- With over 70% of Indian coffee exported to EU countries, this regulation has significant implications for coffee producers in India.
Coffee production in India
- India is the only country that grows all of its coffee under shade.
- Shade trees prevent soil erosion on a sloping terrain; they enrich
- the soil by recycling nutrients from deeper layers, protect the
- coffee plant from seasonal fluctuations in temperature, and play host to diverse flora and fauna.
- Growing Conditions: High elevations are ideally suited for growing Arabicas of mild quality while those with warm humid conditions are best suited for Robustas.
- India has approximately 4.41 lakh coffee growers, but so far, only around 9,000 have registered on the app for EUDR compliance.
Major Global Producer:
India’s Coffee Export
- In 2024–2025, coffee exports surpassed the $1000 million mark for the fourth consecutive year, reaching a total of $1803 million.
- India’s major coffee export destinations are-Italy as the top market with 18.09%, followed by Germany (11.01%), Belgium (7.47%), Russia (5.28%), the UAE (5.09%), the United States (4.54%), and Libya (3.87%), among others.
