Koraput Coffee: When The Tribal Land’s Fresh Aroma Takes A Dip In Cup

Bhubaneswar: Imagine yourself waking up on a sleepy Sunday at a hill station and you want to start your day with a fresh cup of coffee. But getting fresh organic coffee is a matter of arduous.

But yes, in Odisha’s Koraput everyone can inhale the fresh aroma of organic coffee, famously known as Koraput Coffee.

Nestled among the hills and streams of the Eastern Ghats, the coffee forst in remote mountainside plots inspired by the forest ecosystem.

Smooth, rounded, and aromatic, Koraput Coffee has a long, clean aftertaste with subtle citrus and spice notes that are reminiscent of fine tea. Planted in soil enriched by intercropping, you can taste the biodiversity in every cup.

Here are the coffee beans hand-picked by the Tribal farmers of Koraput and which make such an effort to enhance the taste of the hills and hillocks

The Tribal communities here also receive their fair share of the natural resources that bless their ancestral homelands. That’s why the Koraput Coffee scores—pure and organic, with a rich taste and aroma.

WHAT IS KORAPUT COFFEE?

Odisha’s caffeinated brew compliments the first coffee seeds sown as a fancy experiment in the sunkissed, rich reddish-brown soil of Bichalkota village in Koraput on the Eastern Ghats by the polyglot Maharaja of Jeypore, Rajbahadur Rama Chandra Deo, in the 1930s.

It has been around for years, but this coffee came of age only recently when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s government decided to package it as a signature brand and push its sales vigorously in the domestic and international market through outlets as well as online e-commerce platforms like Amazon.

Coffee farming is transforming lives in the tribal hinterland of Odisha’s Koraput district. Koraput, which is located at a height of 3,000 feet above sea level, is ideal for coffee cultivation due to its cool climate and rainfall.

This homegrown coffee is a single-origin 100 per cent Arabica coffee which will be competing in the global coffee market in the near future.