The Cupping Desk
Contour map of Wayanad, drawn from Copernicus elevation data

Lat 11.7219° NLon 76.1400° E

Sheet 52.3 × 29.4 km

Wayanad.

Kerala, India

Elevation on this sheet: 326–1,962 m

0510 km

Contours 50 m · index 250 m

At a glance

A district on the eastern side of Kerala, almost entirely robusta. Wayanad Robusta carries a GI tag.12

Coffee grows at
600–900 m2
Rainfall
1,100–1,200 mm2
Coffee, mainly robusta
67,000 ha54,000 t a year2
GI tag
Wayanad Robustasince 20191

How it grows

  • All Indian coffee grows under shade, here under evergreen leguminous trees, in the biodiversity hotspots of the Ghats.23
  • Robusta is grown both as a pure crop and together with pepper.4

Robusta varieties2

  • Peridenia
  • S.274
  • CxR

Grown alongside2

  • Pepper
  • Banana
  • Ginger
  • Vegetables

Climate and harvest

Blossom and harvest months
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Robustaharvestblossomblossom––––––––harvest

Blossom showers2 Picking (hatched)5

  • 1,100–1,200 mm of rain a year.2
  • Robusta flowers earlier, after blossom showers in February–March, with backing showers in March–April.2
  • 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. Drishti IAS: Five coffee varieties got GI tag (30 Mar 2019)
  2. Coffee Board of India: Coffee regions of India
  3. Coffee Board of India: Coffees of India
  4. SCC Online: GI certification for five varieties of Indian coffee (30 Mar 2019)
  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: Kalpetta, Mananthavady, Sultan Bathery, Pulpally (Wikipedia).
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