Vishakhapatnam’s Sustainable Coffee Chains Reviving Old Spice Routes
Vishakhapatnam’s Sustainable Coffee Chains Reviving Old Spice Routes
Authors : Smriti Ahuja and Dhruv Joshi
Circa 500 A.D., Kaldi, a shepherd accidentally discovered coffee when he observed that his
goats were jumping around after grazing red cherries of small shrub growing on the hill
slopes of Ethiopia. Little did the boy know that someday Ethiopia would be the world’s
premiere caffeine provider, that will be consumed globally at the rate of 2.5 billion cups
every day in 2017-2018. In October 2018, coffee exports globally reached 10.41 million
bags compared to 8.89 million in October 2017. With a 17 per cent surge, this has been
the largest per month volume of export to date. As per projections, by 2050, the global
consumption of coffee would have doubled.
Visakhapatnam district, offi cially known as
Vizag district, is located in Andhra Pradesh,
India. It has coffee plantations nestled
in the valleys of the Eastern Highlands’
deciduous forests. The Eastern Ghats are
a discontinuous range of mountains along
India’s eastern coast that run from northern
Odisha through Andhra Pradesh to Tamil
Nadu and cut through four major rivers of
peninsular India.
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