The Statista site states that India is the sixth largest producer of coffee in the world, after Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Honduras. India produced about 4,00,000 tonnes of coffee in 2022-23.
Dr. K.T. Achaya, in his book, Indian Food, writes that coffee reached India from the Middle East in the 14th-15th century, named ‘cohha’, which later became coffee. Blogs tell us that the colonial British commercialised Indian coffee from Mysore to Europe.
