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About Coffee Board:

The saga of Indian coffee began on a humble note, with planting of ‘Seven seeds’ of ‘Mocha’ during 1600 AD by the legendary holy saint Baba Budan, in the courtyard of his hermitage on ‘Baba Budan Giris’ in Karnataka. For quite a considerable period, the plants remained as a garden curiosity and spread slowly as back yard plantings. 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.

During 1940’s, the coffee industry in India was in a desperate state due to the II World war resulting in very low prices and ravages of pests and diseases. At this time, the Government of India established the ‘Coffee Board’ through a constitutional act “Coffee Act VII of 1942” under the administrative control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The Board comprises 33 members including the Chairman and the Secretary & Chief Executive Officer. The remaining 31 members represent the various interests such as coffee growing industry, coffee trade interests, curing establishments, interests of labour and consumers, representatives of governments of the principal coffee growing states, and Members of Parliament.

Coffee Board & its functions:

Statutory Committees
The Board functions through six statutory committees which are appointed for one year term each and the functions of each committee as per the Coffee Act are:

1. Executive Committee
Deals with functions specifically assigned to it under the Coffee Rules. In addition to that deals with matters not specifically assigned to the Propaganda, Marketing, Research, or any other committees constituted by the Board.

2. Propaganda Committee
Deals with matters relating to promotion of sale and increasing the consumption in India and elsewhere of the coffee produced in India.

3. Marketing Committee
Deals with coffee marketing scheme as set forth in the Act and Rules.

4. Research Committee
Deals with promotion of agricultural and technological research in the interest of the coffee industry in India.

5. Development Committee
Deals with the measures that may be undertaken for the development of coffee estates.

6. Quality Committee
Deals with all issues relating to the improvement in the quality of coffee produced in India.

Non-Statutory Committees
The Board also had one non-statutory committee viz., Audit Committee as detailed below:

Audit Committee
Deals with the matters relating to Annual Accounts and also study

Role of Coffee Board:

After pooling was discontinued in 1996, Coffee Board serves as the friend, philosopher and guide to the Coffee sector covering the entire value chain. The core activities are primarily directed towards research & development, transfer of technology, quality improvement, extending development support to growing sector, promotion of coffee in export and domestic markets. The activities of the Board are broadly aimed at (i) enhancement of production, productivity & quality; (ii) export promotion for achieving higher value returns for Indian Coffee and (iii) supporting development of Domestic market.

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