{"id":5315,"date":"2011-10-11T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2011-10-11T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:44:34","slug":"odisha-to-expand-areas-under-coffee-cultivation-to-22700-hectare-by-2021-22-with-an-investment-of-rs-400-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5315","title":{"rendered":"Odisha to expand areas under coffee cultivation to 22,700 hectare by 2021-22 with an investment of Rs 400 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/government-to-pump-rs-400-crore-into-coffee-cup\/191436-60-117.html\">a report in ibnlive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The coffee plantation would be taken up in the undivided Koraput district where currently about 1,300 hectares are under cultivation. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It has been decided to invest the ` 400 crore over a period of 10 years from 2011-12. The ICB would fund ` 35 crore for a programme on organic coffee production in the State. Rest of the funds will be pooled from MGNREGS, Revised Long Term Action Plan (RLTAP) for KBK districts and other schemes.<\/p>\n<p>As per the survey conducted by the Coffee Board, an area of 11,650 hectare in the Koraput, Kalahandi, Ganjam, Phulbani and Keonjhar districts has been found suitable for coffee cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>Public sector industries like Nalco, Hindustan Aluminium Company and a host of private sector enterprises have evinced interest to take up coffee cultivation in about 1,000 acres which is mined for bauxite ore extraction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8230; For Orissa, the Board is implementing a Special Area Programme with the objective of checking &lsquo;Podu&rsquo; cultivation, rejuvenating small coffee holdings and expanding coffee plantation in the tribal sector by providing a subsidy of ` l5,000 per hectare.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the Board is also providing financial assistance for installation of coffee processing units and imparting training to coffee growers on latest coffee husbandry practices and scientific methods of cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>Six hulling units were also supplied under the scheme to the State during 1999- 2000 to process coffee at farm level.<\/p>\n<p>At present, there are about 122 private coffee growers in the Koraput who have taken to commercial cultivation. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from a report in ibnlive.com. The coffee plantation would be taken up in the undivided Koraput district where currently about 1,300 hectares are under cultivation. &#8230; It has been decided to invest the ` 400 crore over a period of 10 years from 2011-12. The ICB would fund ` 35 crore for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,214,163,146,15,35,28,19,34,172,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-aluminium","category-bauxite","category-birlas","category-coffee-development","category-district-ganjam","category-district-kalahandi","category-district-kandhamala","category-district-keonjhar","category-district-koraput","category-nalco","category-new-indian-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}