March 23: After Tirupati laddu, Andhra Pradesh is trying to include Athripuram Putharekulu, Araku coffee, Bandaru laddu and Avakaya pickle in the Geographical Indications Registry.
This will give the registered proprietor and authorised users the legal right to the exclusive use of the product and the right to obtain relief in case of its infringement.
A herd of wild buffaloes barged into the coffee plantation of one Mr Madhava Gowda at K Kelaguru in Kalasa hobli and destroyed the crops, estimated to be worth Rs 1 lakh.
The coffee growers of Mudigere region are facing a peculiar problem. These growers had filed an application seeking permission from the District Conservator of Forest to cut the trees in their coffee plantation, which they had planted some years ago to provide shade. Though they had sought permission about a year ago, the applications are lying on the tables of the Forest officials, hogging dust.
This study looks at the approaches of different private, voluntary standards in coffee supply chains on controlling the use of hazardous pesticides and moving to safer pest management. It draws some conclusions from the different schemes and highlights issues for private and public sector stakeholders.
Exclosure experiments have demonstrated the effects of bird predation on arthropods. In a Mexican coffee plantation, we excluded foliage-gleaning bird and bat predators from coffee plants. Effects of bats and birds were additive. In the dry season, birds reduced arthropods in coffee plants by 30%; birds and bats together reduced arthropods by 46%.
The government has attached high priority to the plantation of organic coffee, minister of state for commerce Jayaram Ramesh said in Parliament yesterday.
