22 December 2011

COLOMBIA: Heavy Rains Feeding Coffee Fungus...Stoking Price Hikes.

                                            WSJ

    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.