How cocoa and coffee found a home in India’s hills
From Baba Budan's seven beans in the 1600s to vast plantations, coffee became an Indian comfort. Cocoa followed in the early 1900s, initially a side crop, now central to India's craft chocolate. These foreign crops, thriving in the south's red soil and monsoon rains, have transformed into symbols of Indian craftsmanship, deeply woven into the land and its people.
From Baba Budan's seven beans in the 1600s to vast plantations, coffee became an Indian comfort. Cocoa followed in the early 1900s, initially a side crop, now central to India's craft chocolate. These foreign crops, thriving in the south's red soil and monsoon rains, have transformed into symbols of Indian craftsmanship, deeply woven into the land and its people.
