Worried over increasing leaf spot and yellow leaf diseases in arecanut, some farmers in Dakshina Kannada have now evinced interest to cultivate coffee as an inter-crop in arecanut plantations.

The plantation is situated on the Mangalore-Sakleshpur highway in Karnataka. Industry experts say this makes Siddhartha the largest individual coffee plantation owner in Asia with a holding of ...

Farmers cultivating plantation crops - coffee, tea, arecanut, pepper and rubber - mostly in southern Karnataka who of late had entirely been depending upon migrant labourers have now been facing ...