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🔍 Source check report (9 Oct 2026)

• Opened and confirmed: PIB backgrounder (2025), USDA "Coffee: World Markets and Trade" (July 2026), Coffee Board's 2024 scheme notification, the Board's 2026 training notice, the TechnoServe report, the World Bank document (1985).
• Research-article titles and authors were matched through other sources. Two links now use permanent DOIs, the others use repository pages.
• Removed because it could not be verified: shade percentages, plant-spacing figures, pulp and husk quantities, the water-use figure, the Kenya study percentages, and the moisture figure for wet-hulling.
• Still based on secondary sources: Panama and Jamaica facts (Wikipedia, Daily Coffee News), franchise law (Mondaq) and the FSSAI thresholds (a blog). Each carries a warning on its page.
• Roasting temperatures and SCA values are general references that were not re-checked against the original documents in this pass.
• Some journal sites block automated checking, so those pages could not be opened and read.

✅ Opened and matched

• PIB backgrounder on India's coffee story (29 Nov 2025): covers Indian coffee and the Coffee Board's creation under the Coffee Act, 1942. Matches how we cite it.
• USDA FAS "Coffee: World Markets and Trade" (dated 2 July 2026): the report exists at the link and is the report we name. We show none of its numbers.
• Coffee Board service pages (planter, registration, subsidy, extension, research, schemes, statistics): taken from the Board's own home page list.
• World Coffee Directory (10 Oct 2026): each listed link loaded in a reader and matched the organisation: ICO and its prices page, FAOSTAT, USDA FAS coffee report, ITC, World Bank commodity page, World Coffee Research and its varieties catalogue, ASIC, Coffee Science (UFLA), Embrapa, Cenicafé, CIRAD, CATIE, IAC, UC Davis Coffee Center, SCA research, Coffee Board of India, FNC, Anacafé, IHCAFE, NAEB, Cecafé, Vicofa, Global Coffee Platform, coffee&climate, ISEAL, Fairtrade International, Rainforest Alliance, PubMed, PubMed Central, FoodData Central, Kew POWO, GBIF, CoffeeResearch.org, NCA USA, All Japan Coffee Association. Page content for some was only a home page, so we describe them in general terms.
• Coffee Board Kaapi Shastra 2026 notice, Daily Coffee News (Panama auction), Mondaq franchise guide, Wikipedia pages for Panama and Blue Mountain: opened and read for the facts we use.

⏳ Not yet opened in this pass

• Pass of 11 Oct 2026 (new sections: agronomy, Coffee Board services, quality and trade, evidence notes): pages opened in a reader for the Coffee Board (about, exporter, grower registration, ICDP circular, statistics, regions), the CCRI planter guide, two Kerala Agricultural University pages, ICE Coffee C page and rulebook, ICO Resolution 420, ITC market page, Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, APEDA NPOP, FSSAI eligibility table, EFSA, IARC press release, two open-access reviews and the EU decaf directive text. A reader summarises pages, so quotes should still be checked on the live page.
• Opened on 11 Oct 2026: the NSWS, Udyam and India.gov.in home pages (matched their owners). Not opened or weaker in that pass: the DGFT IEC page (a second attempt also failed), current GST thresholds, USDA caffeine per cup, SCA's own Golden Cup and water documents (only secondary pages were found, so we publish none of those figures), and the Board's indiacoffee.org grading pages (blocked to readers).
• Journal links (ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis): the publishers block automated reading, so titles still need a manual check.
• World Bank conversion-tables PDF, TechnoServe defect-impact PDF, and the Coffee Board curing-units notification: not yet opened.
• Organisation home-page links (ICO, SCA, FAO, EFSA, FDA, DGFT, World Coffee Research, FSSAI, FoSCoS, GST, IP India): well-known addresses, not opened one by one.

⚠️ Weaker sources we flag openly

• Earlier this site quoted FSSAI turnover limits from a blog. They were out of date and have been replaced with figures from FSSAI's own table (updated 01.04.2026). Still confirm on FoSCoS.
• Franchise law summary comes from one legal guide.
• Panama and Jamaica facts rely on Daily Coffee News and Wikipedia summaries; sources differed on one auction price.