date:Sep 29, 2012
According to the Karnataka Planters Association (KPA), the shortage and high cost of labour has put constraints on its plans to make coffee growing one of food-processings marquee sectors.
Labour issues growing
Karnataka accounts for some 70% of the countrys coffee production, but it requires the investment of roughly US$200mn over the next five years to mechanise the sector, according to the KPA.
We are looking at severe labour shortage in the long-term, said Marvin Rodrigues, the associatio