By P.T. Bopanna While most of my dozen Facebook pages are Coorg-centric, my ‘Coorg Coffee’ page is perhaps the only one which has a pan Indian appeal. The page followed by over 1,500 people...
Has the Coffee Board overstepped its limits by filing a police complaint against Thamoo Poovaiah (in picture), who markets the expensive civet coffee under the brand name Ainmane? Thamoo Poovaiah, managing partner of Coorg...
The ongoing spell of blossom showers in most parts of Coorg and in the coffee growing regions of Karnataka has brought much cheer to the planters. This is time for party as the planters...
By P.T. Bopanna The coffee planters in Karnataka, especially Coorg, are facing an unprecedented crisis due to falling prices, labour shortage and shoddy policies of the Congress government in Karnataka and the BJP government...
By P.T. Bopanna A massive scam has come to light, close on the heels of Karnataka overtaking Kerala as the leading producer of pepper in the country. Reports said the Agriculture Produce Market Committee...
By P.T. Bopanna* There is bad news for Indian coffee as the Chinese have started converting their main tea growing areas into coffee plantations. China which has of late been flexing its muscles and...
By P.T. Bopanna Karnataka’s rural development and panchayat raj minister H K Patil has been quoted as saying that there were bonded labourers, especially involving migrants, in the coffee estates located in the coffee...
By P.T. Bopanna While working on my book ‘The Romance of Indian Coffee’, I spotted this Moplah girl (see picture) picking coffee berries at an estate in Coorg. She had light eyes which caught...
Dr. Kanathanda Manjula Aiyappa (in picture), an agriculture scientist, explains in simple language all that you wanted to know about the coffee ‘out-turn test’ which has become a sort of headache for the coffee...
Kodagu received the much-awaited ‘blossom shower’ on Sunday, cheering the coffee planters of a bountiful coffee crop in the next season. Most parts of Kodagu, including Madikeri, Suntikopppa, Virajpet, Napoklu, Bhagamandala, Gonikoppal,...
