Coffee Cultivation in Kerala: Some Economic Aspects

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Title

Coffee Cultivation in Kerala: Some Economic Aspects

Subject

Coffee cultivation
Coffee board
Profitability
Kerala

Description

Coffee production in India is mostly done in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu. It is one of the important commercial crops of Keralaand is the main source of income and employment to the people of three districts in Kerala. Coffee cultivation is not an easy businessandis adversely affected by various factors at present. Small coffee growers fail to acquiretechnological 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 studyreveals that problems like scarcity of labour, pests and diseases, thehigh cost of production, low price for coffee, marketing difficulties and unusual climate changes often hurt coffee cultivators. However,the schemes and programmes ofthe coffee board benefited the growers. Theanalysis of the profitability of the crop shows that coffee cultivation is profitable in Kerala.

Creator

N, Karunakaran

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 16 No. 4 (2017): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 97-108
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2017-10-01

Rights

Copyright (c) 2019 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Text

Identifier

Citation

Karunakaran N, Coffee Cultivation in Kerala: Some Economic Aspects, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2017, accessed November 7, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/434

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