Shade-Grown Indian Coffee Plantations & Carbon Sequestration
Data suggests, Indian Coffee Plantations have been around for 300+ years. Besides providing the world it’s exotic daily cup, the amount of carbon Indian coffee plantations has sequestered over centuries is immeasurable.
The Green Giants (Trees) in the plantations have stood the test of time, provided livelihoods and sequestered carbon for centuries.
Indian Coffee Planters are among the few farmers in the world who have this forest heritage cultivation dating back to 18th century.
Estimates of Carbon Sequestration in Indian shade-grown Coffee Plantations.
- Shade-grown Indian Coffee Plantations are Carbon Sinks and have stood the test of time.
- “Studies estimate 1 Hectare of shade-grown coffee farm with large forest trees can sequester 70-80 tonnes of carbon. Which is more or less equivalent to the carbon stored in an equal area of a forest.
- On the contrary a full sun-grown or openly cultivated coffee farm in one hectare can only store less than 10 tonnes of carbon” or 4 tonnes per acre. https://www.researchgate.net/publication
- Extrapolating further, 1 Acre of shade-grown coffee farm with large forest trees can sequester 28-32 Tonnes of Carbon annually.
