Coffee growers welcome setting up of panel to look into woes of industry

COIMBATORE, Jul 27: Coffee growers and stakeholders have welcomed the announcement of constitution of a Special Task Force to carry out a comprehensive study of the
problems faced by all sections of the industry and the Coffee
Board.
The Task Force, comprising senior officers of the
Commerce Ministry, to be set up soon after the Budget session
of Parliament will extensively engage with various
stakeholders including grower associations, examine the
functioning of the Coffee Board and make suitable
recommendations to the Union Minister for Commerce Piyush
Goyal, who had announced the initiative.
In a release, UPASI Coffee Committee Chairman Jeffry
Rebello said Goyal had convened a meeting recently of various
coffee growers associations to discuss the issues faced by the
industry.
A delegation of coffee growers and exporters
associations had extensive discussions with Goyal on finding a
remedy to the problems faced by the coffee industry and
appraised of the situation by a group of MPs from Karnataka
led by Prahlad Joshi, he said.
All stakeholders have welcomed the initiative, Rebello
said in the release issued by United Planters Association of
Southern India. (PTI)

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