The Karnataka Planters' Association (KPA) has predicted that the post-harvest arabica crop in 2010-11 will not be over 80,000 tonnes but, the Coffee Board said that the arabica crop will be minimum 90,000 tonnes.
However, the post-monsoon arabica estimate that was put out by the Board was 95,000 tonnes.
Meanwhile, the KPA said that since over 90 per cent of the Arabica harvest is completed, they have predicted this taken into consideration the feedback from all the main arabica producing belts of Chikmagalur (Giris , Mallandur and Mudigere) , Hassan (Belur and Saklespur) and Kodagu ( Somwarpet , Sunticoppa , Madapur).
It also said that in relation to their estimates, with only a few pockets getting an average crop, almost all the zones have reported a major decline in their harvested crop.
Mr Sahadev Balakrishna, Chairman, KPA said that they have also got a response from the major coffee curing works and the trade about the arabica supply being below the estimates.
Moreover, this severe decline in the arabica crop is as a result of the blend of the following reasons namely very early blossom showers in February- March 2010, constant wet conditions in April/May; heavy monsoon during July-August.
It is also due to the unprecedented heavy and continuous unseasonal rainfall during November and December and white stem borer affecting acreage.
Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, hence its name, and also from the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan.
It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee". Coffea arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, being grown in southwest Arabia for well over 1,000 years.
(Source: http://money.oneindia.in/news/2011/02/21/karnataka-growers-arabica-output-aid0096.html)
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