New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat' on Sunday, among other things, found space about the increasing popularity of Indian coffee among global beverage lovers and how people here in India are taking coffee plantations for livelihoods.

Joining the thread from where he had left last year, talking about Araku coffee of Andhra Pradesh in a similar monthly Mann ki Baat episode, PM Modi today commended the Koraput coffee of Odisha.

Indian coffee is becoming very popular all over the world, the prime minister said, listing out several places in India where coffee plantations are in abundance.

"Be it Chikmagalur, Coorg and Hassan in Karnataka; the areas of Pulney, Shevaroy, Nilgiri a...