December 17, 2025
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Wayanad coffee crisis: urgent coordinated action sought to address wildlife damage, insurance failures, labour shortages and mechanisation.
Urgent policy action is sought to address human-wildlife conflict, defective crop insurance loss-assessment, labour shortages and irrigation restrictions affecting Wayanad coffee growers. The MP calls for coordinated wildlife management measures, stakeholder-driven insurance reforms to ensure timely and fair compensation, promotion of terrain-specific mechanisation, a mobile labour linkage platform, legal guidelines to prevent arbitrary water restrictions, quality-evaluation measures for GI-tagged Wayanad Robusta, and a strategic shift toward AI-enabled smart farms by 2030.