After a successful trial at ongoing Hornbill Festival, the Department of Land Resources and Development (LRD) is looking forward to make Nagaland a coffee producing state.
The coffee stall set up the department under the observation of coffee expert from South Africa Dr. at Kisama, has been attracting many visitors particularly tourists. With the intention of promoting “Nagaland Coffee”, the coffee has been sold at a cheaper rate.
In an interview with Nagaland Post, deputy director C. Vanjamo Ngullie said the amount generated at the stall would be utilized in purchasing coffee seed and would be distributed among coffee growers as the department has plan for bigger project. With the two varieties of coffee richly potential in the state- Arabica and Robusta, the department also plans to expand the project by covering 50,000 hectares of land across the state with coffee plants by 2027.
The deputy director also informed that the department has plans to open coffee centre at all the block levels, to facilitate coffee growers in marketing. At the stall, the department is serving mostly Arabica and said almost 80 kgs has been used during the last seven days out of the total 185 kgs.
Department has also installed Roaster machine, procured from South Africa, Espresso machine brought from Italy, Big Roaster machine with 5 kg capacity and grinding machine transported from Coimotor at the stall. He expressed delight that the first initiative of the department has proved well and said Nagaland Coffee would be promoted in all possible manners.
The stall was inaugurated by Assam chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal on December 1.
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