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Farming coffee in Costa Rica is not an easy job

Henriette Jacobsen — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:25:05 +0000

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.

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Costa Rica can’t afford to keep the good coffee

Henriette Jacobsen — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:44:59 +0000

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.

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Decline in coffee production attributed to aging plantations

Lance Harrell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:19:31 +0000

by TCRN Staff A 35% decline in national production of coffee in the last seven crops have stimulated authorities to the sector to begin seeking solutions to the problem. During the 2002-2003 growing season, production reached 2.92 million bushels (equivalent to as many bags of 46 kilos or pounds of processed coffee). The current harvest [...]

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Environmental changes and investing?

Lance Harrell — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:23:06 +0000

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 09-10 Coffee Crop Up 5% To 1.67M Bags

Lance Harrell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:17:48 +0000

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. [...]