The story of filter coffee begins with the much older history of coffee cultivation in India. According to the Coffee Board of India, Indian coffee tradition traces its beginnings to the early 1600s, when the legendary Baba Budan is said to have brought seven coffee seeds from Yemen and planted them in the hills of present-day Karnataka. The Coffee Board identifies the Baba Budan region as an important historical starting point for Indian coffee cultivation, while noting that commercial plantations developed much later.
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