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Planters in Karnataka say the Coffee Board’s estimate of output in 2017-18, at 350,400 tonnes, is inflated. They put it at 312,000 tonnes.
The Board reports to the Union commerce ministry. It estimated a post-blossom crop of 103,100 tonnes Arabica and 247,300 tonnes of Robusta. The overall increase is 38,400 tonnes (12.3 per cent) over the final estimate of 2016-17. The rise, said the Board, would be mainly due to an additional 13,500 hectares in the traditional growing areas of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
This post-blossom estimation was in May 2017. Any crop losses since then would be estimated in the
