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The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to increase the coffee plantation acreage to one lakh hectares from the present 58,000 hectares and increase productivity.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has asked the officials to increasing the productivity in the State which is very low at 170 kg a hectare (in the Visakhapatnam agency area) as against 700 kg in the neighbouring Karnataka.
Tribals take care of cultivation in about 55,000 hectares.
In a review meeting held on Sunday, the Chief Minister said the officials should introduce the best practices in plantation in order to increase productivity and increase incomes.
Despite favourable climatic conditions, the State was not able to produce more because of the obsolete farming and management practices.
The Chief Minister asked the officials to study the best practices and deploy technological solutions to improve the output and make the State the top producer of coffee in the country. “Besides increasing the incomes of tribals, it will also help earn the State a good branding,” he said.
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