Money from coffee cherry skins

After removing the coffee beans, the cherry skins are pulped and dried to make cascara tea.

Coffee, one of the most widely traded high-value agricultural commodities, involves up to 25 million farming families worldwide, mostly smallholders. Nepal too has been commercially producing Arabica coffee for the last three decades. As per the National Tea and Coffee Development Board’s 2019-20 data, 26,719 smallholder Nepali farmers produced 296.5 tonnes of coffee on 2,360 hectares . The district of Kavrepalanchok led the production with 34 tonnes, followed by Gulmi and Lalitpur districts with 24 tonnes and 18 tonnes production respectively.