BREAKING NEWS: JULY 15 (SpillingTheBeans)–The new 2013-14 coffee harvest in the world’s top grower Brazil will fall short of expectations and is unlikely to yield more than 49.4 million 60-kilogram…
OCT 17, 2013 (Procafé/Cafepoint)–Neste ano as floradas dos cafezais chegaram mais cedo, em finais de setembro. Elas, como se sabe, são o prenuncio da nova safra, a ser colhida em…
OCT 18, 2013 (Cafepoint)–O consumo de café no país deverá crescer entre 2,5% e 3% este ano em relação a 2012 e alcançar cerca de 21 milhões de sacas de…
Starting next week, look forward to my latest coffee reports including origin updates on specialty coffee in Ecuador, the fascinating and surprising coffee history of The Philippines, the world’s youngest…
South American coffee producer Ecuador has long been famous for producing the cocoa beans used in some of the world’s finest chocolate and the Andean country is far less known…
This is now changing as information about Ecuador’s coffee industry in recent years has started to reach export markets and the country’s southern-most Arabica growing province of Loja. Loja coffee,…
To reach the coffee regions of Loja and Zamora on Ecuador’s southern border with Peru visitors will travel straight across the central part of the Andes Mountain range, climbing to…
Arabica coffee in Ecuador is not only strictly grown coffee but in most of the producing regions growers can claim to be growing “alpine coffee” as a majority of farms…
Of the total Ecuadorian Arabica production some 70 percent of beans are processed as “Natural Arabicas” in which the freshly picked coffee cherries are dried complete with the pulp –…
Ecuador is one of only 15 countries in the world that grows and exports both Arabica and Robusta coffee, the two main species of coffee two main coffee species that…