India’s coffee story has quietly gone global, and this week, it found a spot in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat. What began decades ago as a plantation crop tucked into the hills of Karnataka and Kerala is now a billion-dollar export with a new hero: Koraput coffee from Odisha. Modi’s mention wasn’t just a passing shoutout. It was part recognition, part signal, that India’s local brews are becoming global ambassadors of taste, enterprise, and identity.

Picking up from where he left off last year when he spoke about Araku coffee of Andhra Pradesh, the prime minister this time shone the spotlight on Koraput coffee of Odisha, a brew that’s quietly gaining recognition worldwide.

“Indian coffee is becoming very popular all over the world,” Modi said, listing out the country’s lush

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