25/11/2014
Coffee is an evergreen perennial plant and has a curious origin in India. It is widely believed that in the seventeenth century, saint Baba Budan, planted seven coffee seeds, probably brought from Ethiopia, on the elevated hills of BabaBudan in Chickmagalore district of Karnataka (India). Thus coffee growing took its birth in the enchanting hills of Bababudan. There after Europeans, systematically introduced Plantations in India, in the 18th century. Mr. Thomas Cannon established the first estate at Balur in the Mysore kingdom in 1830. Later Frederic Green, Mr. Elliot and others followed. Today southern Karnataka, Western Tamil Nadu, Wyanad and High Ranges of Kerala are the major Coffee growing regions of India.
