The Eleventh Five Year Plan would be formally approved at the full Planning Commission meeting on November 8, Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Karnataka Planters' Association in Bangalore, he said the coffee sector had been allocated a sum of Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) in the 11th plan (2007- 2012), up from Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) in the previous plan.
In the 11th plan, replantation in 70,000-80,000 hactares in coffee producing regions is proposed to be taken up.
Ramesh said a new variety of coffee -- the first in 21 years --
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