up by 42%!

India's coffee exports up 42 pc in 2010-11 crop year: ICO

NEW DELHI: India's coffee exports rose by 42 per cent to 3,60,540 tonnes in the 2010-11 coffee year ended September this year, according to a report by the International Coffee Organisation (ICO).

Shipments of the brew from the country stood at 2,53,895 tonnes on the 2009-10 coffee year (October-September), ICO data said.

According to the government-owned Coffee Board of India, the country's exports of the brew rose by 31 per cent to 3,60,540 tonnes in the last coffee year against 2,71,859 tonnes in the 2009-10 coffee year.

However, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has put coffee exports from India much lower than that of the Coffee Board and the ICO.