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Girijan Cooperative Corporation’s (GCC) ‘Araku Valley Coffee’ was honoured with the prestigious “Changemaker of the Year Award–2025” successful the class Financial Transformation, astatine the seventh variation of the Business Line Changemakers Awards held successful Mumbai connected Friday (September 26, 2025). Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri presented the grant to GCC Vice Chairman and Managing Director Kalpana Kumari.
In a merchandise connected Saturday (September 27, 2025), Ms. Kalpana Kumari said that the instauration of java cultivation successful Araku Valley by the GCC during the 1970s has emerged arsenic a transformative inaugural elevating subsistence farming into a sustainable and lucrative livelihood portion concurrently preserving ecological integrity. The resounding occurrence of Araku Coffee is the culmination of decades of unwavering dedication, peculiarly the past decennary of resolute efforts by the Divisional Managers of Paderu and Chintapalli, Managers, and Coffee Procurement Staff, who meticulously engaged with farmers to guarantee prime astatine the grassroots level.
Building upon this legacy, GCC attained Organic Certification successful 2024 for 6,000 acres of java and achromatic capsicum plantations owned by 2,600 farmers successful Chintapalli and G.K. Veedhi mandals successful A.S.R. District. Ambitious plans are underway to widen certification to an further 15,000 acres crossed 4 mandals, benefiting 10,000 farmers and encompassing different crops successful summation to java and pepper, she said.
Furthermore, during the Adivasi Divas celebrations connected August 9, 2025, astatine Paderu, a MoU was executed betwixt GCC and Tata Consumer Products Ltd. (TCPL) successful the beingness of Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, for the motorboat of Organic Soluble Coffee, a pioneering merchandise unprecedented successful India.
“To bolster its infrastructure, GCC is besides establishing a state-of-the-art Integrated Coffee Processing Unit (Bean to Cup model) astatine Makavarapalem adjacent Narsipatnam successful Anakapalli district. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has allocated 12 acres of onshore and sanctioned ₹10 crore for this project, which volition heighten worth summation and marketplace accessibility,” she added.
