Coffee consumption rising in Nepal
The Tea and Coffee Development Board of Nepal has, in the past couple of days, announced that their export figure for this seasonal year has decline. But if you think that the picture painted in the opening sentence is about to be followed with doom and gloom, you’d be wrong. Admittedly, export levels did fall short of the expected targets, but more and more domestically produced coffee was sold internally due to the nation’s coffee consumption growing.
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Nepalese Tea & Coffee Development Board to split
Today’s story comes from Kathmandu where it seems that the Nepalese Tea & Coffee Development Board (NTCDB) is about to separate into two entities, each solely concerned with their designated sector.
The decision is in response to the production and sales of both tea and coffee performing well above previous levels and the current prosperity has pushed the government to split the current group.
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Nepalese coffee takes over the domestic market
It is always great to find those alternative coffee stories amongst your morning pile of news. Whilst the big chains of Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and Costa, and the major coffee producing nations such as Brazil and Ethiopia get the majority of the press coverage from an industry perspective, it is the little stories from the little players that often stand out from the congested crowd.
One such story is the dramatic rise of Nepalese coffee and how it’s finally usurping foreign imports.
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Nepalese Coffee Production to Double by 2013
Growing Arabica coffee in its highland regions, Nepal has seen its output rise considerably over the last five year period and has high hopes of fulfilling its three-year strategic plan to double its production of the commodity, according to the National Tea and Coffee Development Board (NTCDB).
Having already shown significant growth in recent years, the Nepali coffee industry is said to have demonstrated a fourfold increase in its production and seen the amount of farmers active in the coffee plantation process more than double since 2005.
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