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After years of heavy rains...an orange-colored fungus is attacking much of Colombia's famous arabica coffee beans.
The infestation of "coffee rust"/roya...blocks nutrients to the beans...forcing growers to remove mature plants...and replace them with fungus-resisitent seedlings.
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