Importance of Baba Budangiri in India’s Coffee Industry

Dattagiri or Baba Budangiri  is a mountain in the Dattagiri Hill Range / Baba Budan Giri Range of the Western Ghats in the Chikkamagaluru District of Karnataka. There is a shrine of Baba Budangiri , a place of pilgrimage for both Hindus and Muslims.  Baba Budangiri is known as birth place of Coffee Plantations in India. Legend has it that it is the place where seven coffee beans were planted by one Sufi savant Bababudan in 1670 AD after he “smuggled” the coffee from Yemen. Today it has special place in the multi-billion-dollar Indian coffee industry.