Brahmaputra.

At a glance

The Coffee Board's region for the North Eastern states, growing arabica at 800–1,200 m. This sheet shows the Kohima area of Nagaland, the district with the most coffee in that state.¹²

Coffee grows at

800–1,200 m¹

Rainfall

1,500–2,000 mm¹

Coffee, mainly arabica

5,000 ha300 t a year¹

GI tag

None

How it grows

• All Indian coffee grows under shade, here under evergreen leguminous trees, in the biodiversity hotspots of the Ghats.¹³
• In 2022 Kohima district had Nagaland's largest coffee area, about 2,650 ha, out of nearly 10,000 ha being planted across the state.²

Climate and harvest

Blossom showers¹ Picking (hatched)⁴

• 1,500–2,000 mm of rain a year.¹
• Arabica flowers after the blossom showers of March–April (25–40 mm), followed by backing showers in April–May.¹
• Arabica is picked from November to January.⁴

Processing

[TBC] Not yet sourced for this region.

History

[TBC] Not yet sourced for this region.

Sources

1. Coffee Board of India: Coffee regions of India
2. Udayavani (PTI): Coffee plantation on nearly 10,000 hectares of land in Nagaland (2022)
3. Coffee Board of India: Coffees of India
4. StoneX: USDA attaché on India's 2023/24 coffee crop
5. Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (elevation data for the map). Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by ESA; © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
6. Town positions: Kohima, Jakhama (Wikipedia).