Top 10 Major Coffee and Tea Plantation Regions in India

South Indian states are the major producer of Coffees in India with Karnataka 53%, Kerala 28%, Tamil Nadu 11% and remaining from the other states includes Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Assam and Tripura.
Hilly area and good monsoon in this region makes it best place for important varieties of coffee and tea plantation. Indian coffee is considers as one of the finest coffee in the world, they grown under the shade rather than direct sunlight. भारत के 10 प्रमुख कॉफी और चाय बागान क्षेत्र

Major Coffee Plantation in India

South India dominates the other states in coffee plantation, Hills of Western ghats receive plenty of rainfall during the monsoon season which makes these region best place for coffee cultivation.

Chikmagalur, Karnataka

Chikmagalur is first place in India where coffee was introduced, It is also known as coffee land of  Karnataka. Its geography and climate makes it one of the largest coffee estates in Karnataka followed by Kodagu, coorg and Hassan.
Mullayanagiri is the highest peak of Karnataka situated in the Baba Budan Giri Range and tallest peak between the Himalayas and the Nilgiris,known as best place for trekking in Karnataka.

Wayanad, Kerala

The green paradise of Malabar region, Wyanad is located between the mountains of the majestic Western Ghats. Wayanad is the one of the best hill station of Kerala followed by Munnar, nalliyampathy and Rajamala.
The beautiful hill region is surrounded by ever green forest, Pookkode Lake and Karapuzha Dam near by,Its pleasant climate is best for coffee and tea cultivation so also known as Coffee County of Kerala.

Yercaud, Tamil Nadu

The small and young hill station of Tamil Nadu is located in the Salem District.Yercaud is situated in the Shevaroys range of hills in the Eastern Ghats and got its name due to forest near the lake mean to Lake Forest.

Cool climate and silent valley of Yercaud known as the best coffee forests in India. Nilgiris District, Coonoor and Kodaikanal are other place in Tamil Nadu which are known for coffee plantation in India, Nilgiris District is also known for tea cultivation.

Araku, Andhra Pradesh

Araku is a hill station in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, in the Eastern Ghats of India inhabited by different types of tribes.
Coffee Plantation in Araku is known for its first tribal growers’ organic coffee brand. Coffee cultivation industry is secondary here, as pepper and rubber are cultivated by the tribal all around the state.

Daringbadi, Odisha

Daringbadi is known as Kashmir of Odisha, the only hill station of state and one of the youngest coffee plantation region in India followed by Chintapalli, Himachal Pradesh and Assam.

Daringbadi offers cool climate, landscape beauty, deep dense forest, Tribal people and pleasant environment, still unexplored and untouched.
Koraput district in Orissa is another place known for most traded commodities, the rich coffee plantation.

Chikhaldara hill station is the only coffee growing area in Maharashtra and the sole hill resort in the Vidarbha region at an altitude of 1118 m.

Major Tea Plantation in India

India is the world’s largest tea-drinking nation and its tea culture is well famous around the world. North east India is known as major tea plantation states along with Himachal Pradesh. Sikkim and tea garden of Tripura are known for its perfect taste and aroma.

Assam

Assam Tea is a black tea produce from large-leaved of tea plants. Region of Cachar,lowlands of Assam and Barak Valley are also produce small quantities of green and white teas.
Assam is the only region with native tea plants in India and second in the world after southern region of China.

Darjeeling, West Bengal

Darjeeling, the beautiful hill station of of West Bengal, located in the Mahabharat range is known for major tourist destination along with its tea industry. Darjeeling tea is also known as black teas but now oolong and green teas are also becoming popular in the state to produce, some area is also producing white teas.

Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu

Nilgiris is a District in the Tamil Nadu, and a mountain range spread across the Tamilnadu Karnataka as well as Kerala. Nilgiri tea is famous for its dark color, fragrant and flavored, Generally grown in the hills of the Nilgiris or blue mountains.
Coonoor tea garden and Ooty tea gardens are famous as one of the popular tourist attraction.

Munnar, Kerala

Tea County of Kerala, Munnar is a famous hill station located on the majestic Western Ghats of India. Tea plantation is spread from Munnar to Central Travancore and further south in state of Kerala. Apart from lush green hills and tea plantations Idukki is famous for its 168.91 m tall arch dam.

Coorg, Karnataka

The most popular hill station of Indian state Karnataka is located in the Western Ghats. Kodagu or Coorg, the popular monsoon destination of south India is well known for its coffee cultivation in the world.

Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Kangra tea from the Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh was given the Geographical Indication status and the area of being suitable for tea plantation in India.

Tea culture of India makes us one of the highly tea consumption country in the world. South Indian states are traditional coffee growing regions rest of the states including Odisha and the Northeastern India are the non-traditional areas for coffee plantation but good for tea.