Sentences with phrase «coffee crop»

Climate change is threatening coffee crops in virtually every major coffee producing region of the world.

The company produces about 60 % of the state's total coffee crop, and has a rich, 200 - year - old history that they love to share with visitors.

Already, «climate change has made coffee crops more vulnerable to diseases like coffee rust, which have wiped out more than a billion dollars in crops,» it said.

Climate change is already impacting coffee crops around the world, according to the report.

He and his colleagues have previously found that birds help to protect the famous Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee crop from the borer beetle, and he is happy to see that Jamaican birds are not alone in their taste for the pest.

The farm was purchased in 1984 and the first coffee crop was planted in 1986... three years later the first crop of Coffea Arabica was harvested and the business has gone from strength to strength ever since.

A fungus is spreading across coffee crops in South America, a debilitating virus is sweeping across the U.S. hog population, and geopolitical tensions in Russia and Ukraine are giving wheat prices a boost.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

Researchers are racing to breed beneficial new traits into the dangerously homogeneous coffee crop before it succumbs to disease or other threats

In Stephanie Pain's article on the perils posed to coffee crops by climate change, the problem was clearly stated and...

Most of these workers were originally from Japan, and they worked their leased land parcels of between 5 and 12 acres as family concerns, producing large, quality coffee crops.

Record coffee crops, record rice crops, record general grain crops and now record wheat harvest — all in «The Hottest Year Evah»!?

The town is jammed with people, all eager to taste samples of this year's coffee crop from many of the area's small coffee farms.

The farm was purchased in 1984 and the first coffee crop was planted in 1986... three years later the first crop of...

In the indigenous Chatino region, these farmers, about half of them women, rely heavily on their coffee crop for their income.

A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed.

It was not clear to what extent El Salvador's coffee crop, already blighted by an outbreak of leaf rust, might be affected by the eruption.

Two recent papers in the collection deliver a double whammy to coffee lovers — or more specifically the Coffea arabica plant, a species that accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's coffee crop.

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

Although the same models show that the diversity of bees in areas suitable for growing coffee may be reduced by between 8 % and 18 %, at least 10 species of bee would be present to pollinate the flowers and set the berries in between 46 % and 59 % of the lands that will be suitable for coffee crops.

This pest is placing additional stresses on all coffee crops, as is coffee rust, a devastating fungus that previously did not survive the cool mountain weather.

In the south, erratic rain patterns are causing the coffee crop to fruit twice and sometimes three times, resulting in inferior beans.