VISAKHAPATNAM: The tribal farmers of Araku Valley are all set to export pepper to Denmark, the first foreign country to receive this tribal produce from Araku. 

Pepper is currently grown on an extent of about 98,000 acres in the Agency areas of Visakhapatnam, majorly as an intercrop inside the coffee plantations in Araku, Ananthagiri, Chintapalli and Paderu. The coffee produced in these tribal pockets is already being exported to several European and other countries. 

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