Exclusive SpillingTheBeans’ Harvest Insight: Coffee production in Colombia in the month of May reached 937,000 60-kilogram bags, up 36 percent on the same month last year, Colombia’s National Coffee Growers…
The International Coffee Organization has raised its damage estimate for the losses in the current 2012-13 harvest in Central America to 2.7 million 60-kilogram bags from the initial figure for…
Brazil’s official crop supply agency CONAB said in its 2nd forecast for the new 2013-14 harvest in the world’s largest coffee growing country it expects the new crop to yield…
*July Arabica coffee prices at the ICE futures exchange in New York end the week down 1.60 cents at $1.20/lb on June 28th. *July Arabica coffee prices at the ICE…
East African grower Tanzania has long been famous for producing top quality coffees for the specialty market. Most of the Tanzanian peaberry coffee is consistently snapped off by buyers from…
Mt Kilimanjaro has been the symbol of coffee for Tanzania since coffee was first planted here in the late 1890s. But following years of socialist-inspired rule from the late 1960s…
Women do all the manual coffee sorting, like here at Oldeani Estate just next to the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater. The tiny Oldeani region is only home to about a dozen…
Most coffee from Tanzania is carefully sorted for defects by hand before packed for shipment. Tanzania is one of only 15 countries in the world that produces and exports both…
At the start of the Millennium Tanzania’s government passed new foreign investment legislation that for the first time in over 30 years allowed for private investors to take on long-term…
Bente Luther-Medoch, the manager of Machare Coffee Estate on the slopes of Mt Kilomanjaro in northern Tanzania. Machare was one of the first old estates to be taken over by…
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