Coorg is the primary growing district for India's fledgling coffee industry. Indian coffee farmers are little known of, only producing 2% of the world's annual coffee output. Coorg produces 80% of India's annual coffee crop, the majority of which is exported. The scale of plantations vary from small scale farms, lived on and worked by a single family to larger operations with permanent staff and much wider distribution. The area, also known as Kodagu, is the native home of the tribal Kodava people who now make up roughly 20% of the population and still mostly work in the agricultural industry.
