• Dr. Vidya.K
• Prof. Ravindranath N. Kadam

Coffee is produced in Guatemala of Central America, Honduras, Mexico, Uganda, India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Colombia, Vietnam, Brazil, etc., are the major coffee producing nations. Coffee is second product after oil which is globs highly traded well. Coffee is a third highest consumed drink in the world after water and tea. In most of the corners of the cities of most of the countries a café are seen. Coffee beans are produced in some nations but is consumed worldwide. Every year 0.5 trillion cups of coffee is consumed in the world. Coffee beans are not only used for preparing coffee but are used for producing cola, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as it has caffeine. Black coffee has some nutritional values it contains Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Manganese, Riboflavin and Niacin. The study has following broad objectives. To study the importance of coffee production, to study the important trends in world production and consumption of coffee, to identify the coffee Importing and exporting countries of the world. The study has used only secondary data for the analysis. The paper made an attempt to identify the facts related to coffee like Production, Consumption, Exporting countries, Importing countries, trends, etc.,

Café, consumption, nutritional, production, pharmaceuticals

"COFFEE, A POPULAR AND TRADITIONAL DRINK OF THE WORLD: A RATIONALE TO PRODUCE IT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.1213-1216, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006210.pdf

"COFFEE, A POPULAR AND TRADITIONAL DRINK OF THE WORLD: A RATIONALE TO PRODUCE IT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp1213-1216, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006210.pdf