Author(s):

Kumareswaran T, HP Singh, V Kamalvanshi, Avdhesh Sharma and Debashish Kumar

Abstract: Coffee is most predominantly export oriented commodity, more than 65 per cent. Coffee industry earns a foreign exchange to the tune of about Rs.4000 crores. The area under coffee plantations in India has increased by more than three times, from 120321 hectares in 1960-61 to 397147 hectares in 2015-16. The paper attempts to quantify the changing structure of Indian coffee exports. Data for analysis was taken for a period of 30 years from 1985 to 2015. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) was used for analysing the growth in coffee area, production, yield, export quantity and export value over the years. CGAR concept was used for the estimation trends in growth and EPR was used to estimate the comparative advantage of the commodity. The study revealed that the growth rate in the area, production and yield, export quantity, export value of coffee was showed that 2.4 per cent, 3 per cent, 0.6 per cent, 3.2 per cent, and 4.2 per cent respectively. The result showing that coffee had a stable and positive fluctuation trend in the export performance ratio.

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