The Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) of Coffee Board is releasing high yielding and disease resistant varieties of Arabica and Robusta from time to time.
In Arabica,
‘Chandragiri’ a semi-dwarf variety with high degree of field tolerance to leaf rust disease and high yield potential has been released for commercial cultivation during 2007-08 season.
In addition, three genotypes of Arabica have been given for multi-location trials in growers’ field during 2014-15.
In Robusta, the improved hybrid variety already developed by CCRI is most preferred among the growers because of its high yield potential and quality of beans.
Further research for development of drought resistant variety of Robusta has been taken up by CCRI.
The institute has also refined the clonal propagation techniques that supplied rooted clones of hybrid varieties to growers from 2014-2015
Coffee Board is also implementing Integrated Coffee Development Project under which various interventions such as- Research & development,
- Technology transfer,
- Capacity building,
- Replacing the old unproductive varieties with improved high yielding/disease tolerant varieties, water augmentation
- Mechanisation etc. are undertaken for the overall improvement of production, productivity and quality of coffee.
