August 30, 2019
Coffee farmers like Augustine Vadakil are struggling with declining returns (Photo by Vishaka George)
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Kerala’s cash crops face the heat of climate change

Coffee and pepper farmers in Wayanad are suffering losses caused by a rise in local temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall in a district whose residents once boasted of its air-conditioned climate

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September 17, 2018
With ginger and cardamom failing them, West Bengal farmers like Sonbir Rai have started growing coffee in a part of their lands (Photo by Gurvinder Singh)
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Upland farmers shift to coffee for better prospects

Suffering losses from traditional crops of ginger and cardamom, farmers in the mountainous areas of Kalimpong and Darjeeling in West Bengal have started growing organic coffee for better returns

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