As crisis grips plantation, planters seek minimum support price for coffee, tea
Deccan ChronicleCHENNAI: As a plethora of issues plague them, the beleaguered planters have urged the Centre to bring commodities such as tea, coffee and rubber under the ambit of minimum support price to bail them out of the prevailing crisis. In TN, which is mainly Arabica coffee producing region, the post monsoon production estimate of 2018-19 was placed at 17,765 MT, showing a decline of -1,535 MT over the post blossom estimate of 2018-19. The major factors responsible for reduction in post monsoon production estimates of 2018-19 in Karnataka and Kerala are that though the initial crop set was good with record post blossom stage estimate of over 3,80,000 MT, but from early July, 2018 onwards, continuous heavy rainfall with severe intensity has been witnessed especially in coffee areas of Karnata-ka and Kerala. Similarly, rubber production, which stood at 6.42 lakh tonnes in 2018-19, is seen higher by 15.7 per cent at 7.5 lakh tonnes during 2019-20.
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