Scientists expect climate change to dramatically affect coffee production in Central America in the coming decades, but some lowland farmers in Guatemala say they are already feeling the effects.

Zimbabwe's once promising coffee industry faces total collapse due to upheavals linked to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land redistribution policy, a farmers union said on Wednesday.

The coffee industry was growing steadily until 2000, when Mugabe embarked on a drive to resettle landless but inexperienced black farmers on white-owned commercial farms.

Environmental conservation depends, to a large degree, on public acceptance. Understanding people

The coffee plant might soon take over the Western Ghats cultivated crops are usually not invasive, but coffee

Andhra Pradesh: Araku Emerald, the organic gourmet coffee grown by tribals

Villagers of Basarikatte in the taluk demanded a ban on the spraying of dreaded pesticide Endosulphan in coffee plantations.

Planters in and around Basarikatte are spraying Endosulphan to prevent coffee borer attack. Meanwhile, villagers are anxious about the possibilities of water pollution through the spray of Endosulphan.

Chikmagalur, DH News Service:
Monday, June 15, 2009

Coffee berry borer is causing nightmare to robusta coffee growers in the district. Coffee Board Extension unit Deputy Director G H Omkarappa has estimated that about 20,000 hectare of land in the district is affected by coffee berry borer disease.

Honduras will temporarily shut down the Caribbean port of Puerto Cortes, where it ships 80 percent of its exports, after a large earthquake nearby on Thursday, the national port authority said.

"There is damaged machinery and equipment," Roberto Babum, head of Honduras' port authority told local television.

Spiders are gaining favour in ecological studies as indicators of environmental quality1 and as biological control agents in agricultural ecosystems. Coffee, a major commercial crop of India harbours rich spider diversity. The crop is also attacked by a variety of pests. This correspondence discusses the importance of gut content analysis of spiders in coffee ecosystem.

Koppa, News Service:
The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters.

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