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Not only are the current low coffee prices that concern Brazilian producers. In recent weeks, the lack of an effective and economically viable defence to combat the drill, a major pest affecting the culture, also happened to cause insomnia, which could turn into losses if an alternative is not found. And already in the next crop. The drill can be controlled with insecticides containing the active ingredient endosulfan, widely used since the 70’s.

India, third largest coffee exporter in Asia, may not achieve the forecast of a record crop next year after more monsoon rains in almost two decades had harmed beans and increased pest attacks.
Production may total about 317,000 tons next season, 30,000 tons less than the record 347,000 tons provided by Coffee Board of India in July, said the member of the state agency , Anil Kumar Bhandari . The harvest was 318,200 tons in the year that began on 1 October 2012.