like in ceylon, coffee production in india declined rapidly from the 1870s and was massively outgrown by the emerging tea industry. the devastating coffee rust affected the output of coffee to the point that the costs of production saw coffee plantations in many parts replaced with tea plantations. however, the coffee industry was not as affected by this disease as in ceylon, and although overshadowed in scale by the tea industry, india was still one of the strongholds of coffee production in the british empire along with british guiana. in the period 1910–12, the area under coffee plantation was reported to be in the southern states, and was mostly exported to england.