Planters’ associations point out that the timing of the rain has compounded existing challenges. Madikeri : Unseasonal rainfall during January has emerged as a major setback for India’s coffee sector, particularly for growers cultivating robusta, who are in the midst of harvesting operations. Untimely showers across key coffee-growing regions in Karnataka and Kerala have not only disrupted harvesting and post-harvest drying but have also raised fresh anxieties about the outlo

Leader of the Opposition R. Ashok speaking in the Legislative Assembly. | Photo: By Arrangement Bengaluru: Kodagu district figured prominently in a political storm in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly with the Leader of the Opposition R. Ashok alleging that migrants from Bangladesh were being employed in coffee plantations across Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan, displacing local labour. Speaking during the discussion on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address on Mon