Black & Blaze India delight

Under British colonial rule, the Adivasi farmers had to pay a handful of rupees to take their home-processed coffee to state collection centres, where the poorest quality raw product found its way onto the world market. The stations disappeared and with them the few rupees. Ten years ago, the Naandi Foundation began to teach individual families the craft of biodynamic coffee cultivation. Success soon followed and the world of speciality coffee was won over. Higher revenues, new prospects for the farmers and a speciality for coffee lovers are the positive results.