Decline in Indian Coffee Bean Harvest: 2021 New Production Season for Arabica and Robusta Coffee

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Indian Coffee Production Faces Devastating Losses

In the past two months, thunderstorms and hailstorms have struck India's coffee-producing regions, causing large-scale coffee fruit drop. To date, India's coffee-producing regions have lost over 30% of their Arabica coffee due to January rainfall. Then, heavy rain and hailstorms in February also caused Robusta coffee production to decline.

After experiencing flood attacks in the previous two years, coffee growers had originally expected a better harvest in 2021. Who would have known that nature would not cooperate, with significant rainfall and hailstorms occurring during this season's harvest period, affecting thousands of hectares of coffee plantations. The hail caused mature coffee fruits to split and fall to the ground. These fallen fruits will quickly begin to sprout and grow in the soil, and removing these "accidental" seedlings will be a massive undertaking.

Indian coffee harvests have been poor in the past two years, with declining coffee bean quality and prices following suit. Growers are not making money, and the wages for hiring harvest workers have also decreased. The Indian Coffee Committee stated that at least 50% of harvesters will not go to work in the plantations during this harvest season. Unless the government provides some incentives to both growers and harvesters, Indian coffee production will only decline year after year.

Before the thunderstorms and hailstorms, the Indian Coffee Committee had originally expected Indian Arabica coffee production for the 2020/21 new season to reach 102,000 tons, an increase of 8.5% compared to the same period last year. Robusta coffee production was expected to reach 240,000 tons, an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period last year. Overall, India's coffee production this year was originally expected to be 342,000 tons, an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period last year. Untimely rain and hail + severe shortage of coffee harvesters + delayed harvesting, this triple blow undoubtedly caused losses of at least 30% or more in the 2020/21 Indian coffee-producing regions.

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