Ajoy Thipaiah, Chairman, UPASI
Ajoy Thipaiah has been elected as Presidentof the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) for the year 2025-26.
Abhishek Poddar of Matheson Bosanquet Enterprises Pvt Ltd has been elected as Vice President.
As a fourth generation coffee planter attached to the traditional coffee grower family, Ajoy Thipaiah joined the family-run plantations of Guddadamane and Kerehaklu Estates situated in Aldur of Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka.
He was actively involved in the Karnataka Planters Association from the late eighties and had a long stint as its Executive Committee member, culminating in heading the Association as Chairman in the year 2008-09.
Ajoy Thipaiah was nominated to the Coffee Board of India in the year 2009 and served a full term as a representative of Coffee growers from Karnataka State. He served the UPASI Executive Committee during the year 2007-08 and 2008-09, and has been in the Committee since 2017-18. He served as the Chairman of the UPASI Coffee Committee for the period 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Published on September 21, 2025
