India

India is an often-overlooked coffee growing country in the modern specialty landscape. It might surprise you to learn that Indian production volumes regularly land the country in top-ten status for both robusta and arabica.

Coffee first came to India through one of two potential routes. A generation or two after Holland’s Pieter van den Broecke visited Yemen’s port of Mokha in 1616, uprooted, and stole a tree to return to the botanical gardens in Amsterdam, the Dutch successfully planted coffee on the western coast of India, in the late 17th century.