The Extension Services of the Coffee Board focus on transferring technologies developed by the Central Coffee Research Institute to coffee growers to enhance production, productivity, and quality. The extension system acts as a bridge between research scientists and planters, promoting the adoption of scientific coffee cultivation practices through method and on-farm demonstrations, village-level meetings, group discussions, seminars, mass communication programmes, and training initiatives.
It also includes activities like vocational training for women workers, crop surveys and pest and disease monitoring, collection of rainfall data and issuance of advisories, maintenance of Technology Evaluation Centers (TECs), supply of elite seed planting material, and organization of awareness campaigns to strengthen the knowledge and skills of coffee growers.
In the Northeastern Region covering Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and Manipur, activities include technology transfer, field demonstrations, training programmes, quality awareness campaigns, and study tours for tribal growers. Technology Evaluation Centres at Baulpui, Haflong, Deomali, and Tulakona demonstrate location-specific technologies, while facilities at Lokhra (Guwahati) and Baulpui support processing of coffee produced by tribal growers.
Extension services are also provided in non-traditional coffee-growing states such as Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, with extension programmes focusing on field visits, demonstrations, advisory services, and quality awareness campaigns. The Technology Evaluation Centre at Minimuluru and the Mini Coffee Curing Works at Chintapalli support growers in the region. In Odisha, coffee cultivation is done with similar extension support, backed by the Technology Evaluation Centre at Koraput. These activities are monitored by the Joint Director (Extension) at Visakhapatnam.
In the traditional coffee growing tracts of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, the extension network in Karnataka is monitored by the Joint Director of Extension at Hassan, while activities in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are overseen by the Joint Director of Extension at Kalpetta. Overall supervision of extension programmes is carried out by the Director of Research at the Central Coffee Research Institute, with planning and coordination managed by the Coffee Board headquarters in Bengaluru.