A Study on Problems of Coffee Growers in the State of Karnataka

Issues and problems of coffee growers assume greater importance due to its export potential as well as the livelihood dependency of large number of small growers (98% of holdings). In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the problems of coffee growers in the state of Karnataka, with respect to selling and marketing, availability of credit, expenditure, cost of the fertilizers, storage problems, coffee exports, weather and rainfall etc. In order to study the aforesaid problems of coffee growers, data gathered from primary sources, i.e. with the help of questionnaire and by using simple statistical tools data were analyzed and from the present study it is found that the coffee growers in Karnataka are facing lot of problem in growing coffee and to sustain in the market, from the present study it is found that most of the coffee growers in Karnataka facing operational cost, 90% of respondents are facing high intensity of cost on coffee production, 90% of the respondents facing coffee selling and marketing problems, and majority of the respondents are facing yield of coffee, coffee storage problem. Hence it is the need of the hour for Government of Karnataka to support coffee growers to overcome the problems of coffee growers in the state of Karnataka. So that it will not only beneficial to coffee growers, it also beneficial social at large.