To encourage coffee drinking and promote Indian coffee, the India Posts is introducing coffee flavoured stamps in Bengaluru on April 23. A tweet by Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that India Post Office is coming out with coffee flavoured stamps. She also said it will be released in Bengaluru on April 23. The Minister’s tweet “#coffeeflavouredstamp release by @IndiaPostOffice on23/4/17. @CoffeeboardI. Philatelic delight. Can smell the coffee now, here. #philately.”
Further, she said “Release happening in #nammaBengaluru on Sunday, 23/4/17. #philately”. The Commerce Minister is in Bengaluru where she has launched a website http://www.indiacoffeesoils.net for the coffee planting community.
In a press meet in Bengal-
uru, she said Centre will come to the rescue of small coffee growers impacted severely by inadequate rains and pests. She said that the Government would extend the PMKSY to small planters to make maximum use of available water.