NOV. 28 (SpillingTheBeans)–Coffee prices weakened this week on news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had raised its forecast for production in the new 2015-16 harvest from the world’s…
NOV 20, 2014 (www.WFP.org)–The lack of rains during July and August this year have affected the food security of more than 35,000 families who grow staple crops, according to a…
SpillingTheBeans has been reviewing a lot of AWESOME coffees recently, and starting this weekend we will start publishing these reviews in our “Coffee of The Day” section for all those…
China is a coffee giant and it’s a fact, even if it’s just now starting to wake up. It’s not only the global economy that moves every time news of…
There is no denying it’s the booming economy that has driven the popularity of coffee in China up with the gross domestic product (GDP) reaching a stunning $12.405 trillion in…
Coffee drinking has been known in China for over 120 years but the local Chinese consumption was primarily maintained by foreign nationals stationed in China up until the 1980s. And…
Total coffee imports by China rose a stunning 29 percent to 2.0 million 60-kilogram bags in the recently completed 2013-14 marketing year from 1.545 million bags in the previous crop…
Coffee growing was introduced to the provinces of Yunnan and Hainan around 1887, most historical accounts agree. A French missionary is believed to have brought the first coffee seedlings into…
Coffee cultivation was never made a priority in China and by 1965 the total cultivated areas was believed to be around 4,000 hectares. That area would quickly go into decline…
Exact data and statistics of the break-down of different types of coffees are not available from China, but local industry sources say Arabica coffee is by far where most of…