Manjarabad.

At a glance

A Karnataka region of gently sloping land cut by small streams. It grows mostly arabica, with robusta alongside.¹

Coffee grows at

900–1,100 m¹

Rainfall

1,000–2,500 mm¹

Arabica

31,700 ha21,000 t a year¹

Robusta

9,400 ha9,500 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.¹²
• The land slopes gently and is cut by small streams.¹

Climate and harvest

Blossom showers¹ Picking (hatched)³

• 1,000–2,500 mm of rain a year.¹
• Robusta flowers earlier, after blossom showers in February–March, with backing showers in March–April.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.³
• Robusta is picked from December to February.³

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. Coffee Board of India: Coffees of India
3. StoneX: USDA attaché on India's 2023/24 coffee crop
4. 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.
5. Town positions: Sakleshpur, Belur, Alur (Wikipedia).