Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, E-mail: vksridhar78@rediffmail.com
Online published on 23 January, 2017.
In India, Karnataka is a major exporter of coffee with nearly 70% of the total production being exported pressurized the government for the early dismantling of the coffee board and generated the impression that globalization is the magic solution. The Coffee Board which acted as a monopoly has been taken over by the private business companies is feeling the impact of steep decline in prices by the vagaries of free trade that govern the industry internationally. What were the politics outlined by different coffee plantation unions, parties, government and state for agrarian mobilization? Why did the movement fail to become a comprehensives movement of the labourers in the politics of Chikmagalur District?
Arabica, Robusta, encroachment, Coffee Board, forest, Karnataka Planters Association, United Planters Association of India