How the coffee plant first came into India makes a very i interesting reading . It was a Moslem piligrim to Mecca BABA BUDAN who smuggled the first coffee plants. These plants were hidden by strapping them to his belly from Yemen back to India. He planted them outside his cave in the Mysore Province, now known as Karnataka in the southern part of india and this place is now is known as Baba Budan Hills.

Several decades later after coffee cultivation started in Java and Sumatra Islands cultivation started in the Latin American Countries.Meanwhile,a rare plant disease spread thro' the coffee fields of South East Asia and this was when Brazil emerged as the worlds leading coffee producer a position which it still holds today.