Policy, production concerns dominate KPA annual media briefing
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- ✓The Karnataka Planters' Association raised concerns over the draft Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area notification during its annual briefing.
- ✓President Salman Baseer warned that erratic rainfall and pest pressures may shrink coffee harvest figures.
- ✓UPASI’s Anil Mathew said, "This must be explicitly codified into the operative part of the notification."
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UPASI points out a critical lack of clarity in the draft Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) notification. While the preamble states that land can be used for agricultural purposes, this must be explicitly codified into the operative part of the notification, it insists
The Karnataka Planters' Association (KPA), representing over 70% of India's coffee growers, has reiterated its long-standing objections to the Centre's draft Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) notification. Speaking ahead of the commodity body's Annual General Meeting in Chikmagaluru, President Salman Baseer urged the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to give due weight to submissions filed by the body since 2012
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