english-news-from-old-website

Coffee futures fell to a two-week low in New York on ample supplies in Brazil, the world’s top producer and exporter, just as European consumers face a second year of…

Rwanda’s export earnings in 2012 reportedly increased despite a bad year for coffee, the country’s main agricultural export alongside tea. Available data obtained from the National Agricultural Exports Board (NAEB)…

Unsustainable Soil Loss Aside from extensive environmental degradation and grave losses in biodiversity, the larger concern is top soil depletion. U.S. farming practices that favor conventional monoculture farming currently deplete…

Arabica coffee gained the most in four sessions on mounting concern that a crop disease will curb output in Central America. Orange juice also rose, while sugar fell. Guatemala, Nicaragua…

Tea farmers in Nyamagabe district are feeling a fresh breeze of life with the impending completion of a factory in the area. The farmers, mainly in the rural Buruhukirom Gatare,…

Prices for raw coffee continued their downward trajectory last year, according to data compiled by the International Coffee Organization. The organization said the average price dropped to $1.56 per pound…

Coffee output in Brazil, the world’s largest producer, rose more than previously forecast to a record 50.8 million bags this year, the government said. The estimate was raised from 50.5…

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd., an affiliate of the world’s largest coffee-shop operator, said it reduced the amount of drip coffee it pours into each cup by 9 millimeters (0.35 inch),…

Record coffee harvests in Brazil, the biggest grower, are compounding a global glut of arabica. Brazilian farmers will reap 50.8 million bags in 2013, a record for a so-called low-crop…

Indian coffee exporters are staring at a bleak year as global coffee prices tumble with Brazil and Vietnam, the two largest coffee producers, harvesting a bumper crop.  The global sentiment…