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September 5 to 7 will run the Nordic Barista Cup in Oslo (Norway), an event that will bring together numerous professionals of the coffee sector.
With three days duration, the event features a packed program of technical insights, contests, scientific information, coupled with the combination of theory and practice.
In a deeply enjoyable and relaxed environment, all participants can share experiences and have fun.

Representatives of the coffee industry in Central America report that the harvest of Arabica coffee is being hit by an outbreak of rust, according to the Reuters site.
Small producers like Graciela Alvarenga, who has a planted area of less than 1 hectare in the region of El Paraíso, Honduras, near the border with Nicaragua, was so struck that now uses the leaves and twigs of their coffee plants as firewood. "I think it will not produce anything this year," said Graciela Alvarenga. "We almost lost the whole farm."