Coffee Board is extending research and development services viz., seed coffee supply, traps, lures and bio-control agents to combat the coffee pests, customized advisories, soil sample analysis and distribution of soil health cards, export facilitation, quality analysis etc., to all the stakeholders in the coffee sector.
Besides, in order to promote the pure coffee consumption in the domestic market, Coffee Board is selling pure coffee powder/roasted beans to consumers. In this connection, taking into account various technological advances in the field of communication, Coffee Board is developing an ‘Integrated Mobile App’ named ‘India Coffee App’ along with e-commerce facility for making one stop solution to all the product, services and information provided by the Coffee Board.
Coffee Board through ‘India Coffee App’ providing customized advisories to the coffee growers. The services in the App enable efficient, timely customized advisory best agricultural practices, alerts on prices, pest& disease management by leverage existing mobile reach for wider delivery of improved technology to boost the production and productivity. ‘India Coffee App’ also helps Coffee Board’s field extension functionaries to improve the work efficiency.
Under this Integrated Mobile App, Coffee Board has tied up with ‘India Post’ for logistic support in order to deliver the products and services to the coffee stakeholders at their door step.
‘India Coffee App’ help the stakeholders to avail all the products and services of the Coffee Board on real time basis. This integrated mobile app will also help the Coffee Board to deliver the products and services to stakeholders more efficiently.
The features of ‘India Coffee App’ reduce users’ search cost for coffee stakeholders to a greater extent.