• Investment World
• eWorld
• Brand Line
• Mentor
• Life
• Canvas
• Praxis
• Urban Pulse
• Brand Quest
• The New Manager

Stocks

• Quotes
• SE Diary
• Scoreboard
• Open-End Mutual Fund

Cross Currency

• Rates
  
  

Shipping

• Ports
  
  

Archives

• Yesterday
• Datewise
• Resources
• In Focus
• In Depth

Group Sites

• The Hindu
• The Hindu ePaper
• Business Line
• Business Line ePaper
• Sportstar
• Frontline
• The Hindu eBooks
• The Hindu Images

Our Bureau

Kochi, Nov. 9 The POABS group’s organic coffee plantation at Nelliampathy in Palakkad district has won the `Flavour of India – Fine Cup award’ for the best and second best organic robusta coffee for the year 2007. Quoting a Coffee Board statement , the POABS Director, Mr Thomas Jacob, said the coffee produced at its Thuthampara estate won the Board’s Fine Cup award (robusta) 2007 and the produce from the Seethargundu estate won the second best award in the same category.

The Coffee Board award selection was based on a four-level rigorous screening by expert cup tasters drawn from various countries. As a result, the quality coffee approved by the Coffee Board has been winning international competitions , Mr Jacob said.

POABS organic coffee has won the International Fine Cup annual awards consecutively for the fifth year since 2003, when it was held at Boston, US. The Best Organic Robusta Coffee and Best Regional Coffee awards held at Triestie, Italy-2004, Best organic Arabica Coffee Award-2005, Seattle, USA, and the Best Organic Robusta Coffee Award-2006 at Bern, Switzerland were the other awards.

More Stories on : Awards & Honours | Coffee

Article E-Mail :: Comment :: Syndication :: Printer Friendly Page

Stories in this Section
Wheat futures easing, vegoils to stay firm

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu Business Line. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu Business Line