Costa Rica produces some of the best quality coffee in the world, which is mostly exported to other countries, so that foreigners can enjoy an excellent brew. However, life as a coffee farmer is above anything, a tough job.
Costa Rica grows some of the best coffee in the world, but exports most of the good stuff to other countries, leaving local supermarkets with the dregs.
The effect of the global economic crisis is evidenced in Costa Rica by the reduction of the number of visitors, in turn forcing the 19 airlines that serve the country’s largest international airport to cut back on the number of flights to and from Costa Rica. The president of the Asociación de Líneas Aéreas (ALA), [...]
In Costa Rica, coffee growers have been forced to plant at higher and higher altitudes in recent years; this fall’s crop in Columbia is expected to be down substantially due to heavy rainfall. July’s harvest was down by nearly a third compared to last year. Brazil, the world’s largest producer of coffee, is expected to [...]
Costa Rica’s coffee production in the next 2009-10 crop cycle, for which harvesting won’t start until October, is forecast to rise 5% to 1,671,270 60-kilogram bags, the official Costa Rican Coffee Council, or Icafe, said Friday. This compares to total production of 1,591,477 bags in Costa Rica’s current 2008-09 cycle. The crop cycle starts Oct. [...]
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