Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online)
Hills of Brew
Anirban Chowdhury and Shantanu Nandan Sharma | Min | June 16, 2026, 10:13 AM IST
From the hills of Nagaland, once rattled by insurgency, comes an unlikely revolution — specialty coffee. In this episode of ET Deep Dive, we trace how a state better known for decades of conflict is quietly reinventing itself, one arabica bean at a time. From smallholder farmers in the mist-covered hills of Wokha to young entrepreneurs who studied abroad and came home to build brands, Nagaland’s coffee story is as much about identity as it is about agriculture. With government backing, global ambitions and a target of fifty thousand hectares by 2047, could this be India’s next great coffee country?