Travancore.

At a glance

Southern Kerala, mostly robusta with some arabica, on land from 400 m to 1,600 m under 2,000–4,000 mm of rain. This sheet is framed on Idukki's coffee towns, such as Kattappana. The exact districts in the Board's Travancore zone aren't confirmed here.¹²

Coffee grows at

400–1,600 m¹

Rainfall

2,000–4,000 mm¹

Coffee, mainly robusta

13,000 ha9,000 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
• Kattappana is a centre for producing and trading coffee, cocoa and ginger.²
• Around Nedumkandam, coffee is a major crop alongside cardamom and pepper.⁴

Climate and harvest

Blossom showers¹ Picking (hatched)⁵

• 2,000–4,000 mm of rain a year.¹
• Robusta flowers earlier, after blossom showers in February–March, with backing showers in March–April.¹
• Robusta is picked from December to February.⁵

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. Wikipedia: Kattappana
3. Coffee Board of India: Coffees of India
4. Wikipedia: Nedumkandam
5. StoneX: USDA attaché on India's 2023/24 coffee crop
6. 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.
7. Town positions: Kattappana, Nedumkandam, Kumily, Adimali (Wikipedia).