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Coffee growers worried over monsoon delay

Staff Correspondent

Pest attacks have also harmed the crop

HASSAN: The delay in the monsoon and the scorching summer created panic among coffee growers who feared they would lose 25 per cent of their crop. In Hassan, coffee is grown in Sakleshpur, Alur and Belur taluks. Usually there is rain by May-end but this year the monsoon has still not set in. Coffee plantations have also been affected by pests that destroy the stem of the plant. To save the rest of the crop, farmers are burning the pest-affected coffee plants.

Tho Cha Anantha Subbaraya, secretary Hassan District Coffee Planters Association, said the monsoon arrived by farmers would be using fertilizer on their crop. Now they were spending their time destroying the pest-affected plant.

This had created a crisis and coffee growers who availed loans are not able to repay instalments.

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