Madikeri: Unseasonal rains in the coffee growing district of Kodagu have affected harvest and post-harvest activities. The early rains have affected coffee quality and output as well. The district has received heavy rainfall and cloudy weather persisted in the crucial coffee season, affecting coffee drying.
Growers have harvested the crop and have left them in drying yards and with lack of sunlight it is taking more than 25 days for drying one lot of coffee as against the normal 15 days. Even the dried up coffee has a moisture level of 18 to 20 percent as against the normal moisture of 10 to 12 percent.
