Laterite soils in India are found in the Eastern Ghat of Orissa, the Southern parts of Western Ghat, Malabar Coastal plains and Ratnagiri of Maharashtra and some part of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Meghalaya, western part of West Bengal. The shaded regions marked as 'A' is Malabar region.Coffee production in India is dominated in the hill tracts of South Indian states, with Karnataka, which is marked as 'B' on given map.