Tucked away in the highlands of Eastern Ghats of Hukumpeta mandal near Araku Valley, about 130 kilometres from Visakhapatnam, is Boini Sanni Babu’s four-acre field, which grows speciality coffee that travels the world. Coffee from Sanni Babu’s farm made it to top 20 coffees of the season in the coffee quality analysis by international experts from countries such as the …
Araku Valley, the highlands of the Eastern Ghats mountain range overlooking the Bay of Bengal, is brewing one of the best coffees in the world and its aroma just got headier with the Geographical Indication tag it was recently awarded. Interestingly, the Girijan Cooperative Corporation, which has been promoting Araku coffee for three years now, had applied for the GI …
Araku, the newest coffee brand on the market, has a somewhat circuitous route to India’s retail scene, having first started retailing in France before touching down in the homeland. That’s because, as Manoj Kumar, CEO of the Naandi Foundation, says, “Whether we like it or not, it is the gastronomic capital of the world, so if you made a food …
Vijayawada: Tribal farmers who grow the now globally famous Araku Coffee are truly going places. Paris-based Livelihoods Funds, an impact investment fund backed by private companies had nominated Araku Farmers to the GLF landscape heroes contest. “Ten years ago, with the support of Naandi Foundation, the Livelihoods Carbon Fund, an impact investment fund backed by private companies, and India’s Mahindra …
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