India is one of the few countries in the world that have initiated earliest research efforts in coffee with an objective of providing technical guidance to the planting community. The United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) established in 1892 took first major step in organizing research efforts to tackle various pests & diseases affecting coffee plantation. Later Dr. L.C. Coleman, the then Director of Agriculture in erstwhile Mysore Government, in a major visionary effort established an exclusive research station for Coffee namely Mysore Coffee ExperimeStation on 17 acres (about twice the area of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool) of land at Guntanaik Estate, owned by the Crawford brothers. The institution today known as Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) with a larger mandate of undertaking extensive research on coffee covering different disciplines and dissemination of technology to growers from time to time.