Devouring profit - International Coffee Organization
Devouring profit - International Coffee Organization
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Table 31. Area and share of the production of coffee under different sizes<br />
of coffee holdings in India 22<br />
Size (ha)<br />
Area under coffee<br />
Share of Production<br />
Area (ha) % of total<br />
I. Small Holdings<br />
0-2 129,091 42.2<br />
2-4 29,978 9.8<br />
4-10 40,379 13,2<br />
Total<br />
II. Large Holdings<br />
199,448 65.2 60%<br />
10-20 26,613 8.7<br />
20-40 17,131 5.6<br />
40-60 11,624 3.8<br />
60-80 9,483 3.1<br />
800-100 7,036 2.3<br />
Above 100 34,567 11.3<br />
Total 106,454 34.8 40%<br />
Total India<br />
305,902 100.0 100%<br />
Labour requirements and rural wages: 67% of total Indian labour works in agriculture.<br />
Data from the present project (Table 32) shows typical labour requirements in<br />
coffee for 3 Indian states regions Kogadu, Wayanad and Tamil Nadu (without labour<br />
for harvesting coffee).<br />
Table 32. Standard labour requirements/ha /year.<br />
These are high requirements in comparison to other countries, but even so are less<br />
than other Indian estimates (<strong>Coffee</strong> Board, 2000). ICO (1997) calculates that coffee<br />
production in India employs about 367,000 persons, which equals about one labourer<br />
per hectare. Labour costs show differences between the producing states. Table 33<br />
indicates the labour cost in four states of India.<br />
22 <strong>Coffee</strong> Board, India 2001
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