The main objective of Coffee Socio-Economics and Extension case team are:
- Respond to high-priority issues facing society in agribusiness (including food and fiber production, supplying inputs, processing products, and marketing), natural resources, and environmental quality.
- Develop an Area of Emphasis in rural entrepreneurship and develop a center for Agribusiness Studies.
- Create enabling environments (policies, institutions, and markets) for effective implementation of technology.
- Develop inter discipline-based solutions to research problems while maintaining a strong, community-driven applied economics research.
- Work on the development of a sustainable platform for the participation of emerging farmers in high-value markets.
- Impact Assessment on Coffee Technology .
- Organizing training on the value chain and agri-business development for trainees admitted to the institute at a different level.
Core Research Areas in Coffee Socio-Economics and Extension Case Team are:
- Speciality and sustainable coffee market: Fairtrade, organic, 4C, UTZ, Rainforest Alliance.
- Policy issues regarding national and global coffee value chain.
- Coffee production and food security.
- Impact study: adoption, intervention, technology.
- Economic modelling.
