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The state agency Development Authority Uganda Coffee rose 7% on Friday the projection of the country's production in marketing year 2012/13, which ends in September, citing favourable weather conditions in the growing areas of the country, said the manager responsible for the quality strategy and business development agency, Norman Mutekanga.

Drinking coffee can cut in half the risk of recurrence of breast cancer. Is the conclusion of a study by scientists at the University of Lund (Sweden) and published in the journal Cancer Causes Control.
A team of researchers followed more than 600 patients with breast cancer for about five years. Approximately half of them took the drug Tamoxifeno. The patients taking this medicine and who consumed two or more cups of coffee per day had a rate of recurrence of breast cancer more than 50% lower compared with patients taking Tamoxifeno but did not drink coffee.

Newly completed, Alimentaria & Horexpo Lisboa 2013, held 14-17 April at FIL (Lisbon), took the coffee sector as one of its main protagonists.
To mark the World Coffee Day, which took place April 14, the AICC (Industrial and Commercial Coffee Association, a nonprofit organization, according to information posted on the portal Money, indicates that about 80% of the Portuguese drank coffee daily .

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) has pointed out that the world coffee production in 2012/13 (October / September) should stay at 144.646 million bags of 60 pounds, thus an increase of 6.4% compared with the 2011/12, which is placed on production 135,933,000 bags. The numbers run from March report of the ICO.

Relative to last March, the monthly report of the International Coffee Organization (ICO) indicates stabilizing prices of coffee, with the monthly average of the ICO composite remain essentially unchanged from the previous month.
The outbreak of coffee rust in Central America has produced devastating effects at the social and economic losses in the region, estimated by PROMECAFE of 2.3 million bags, worth about 550 million dollars, and about 441,000 posts direct labour.
However, global production for the coffee year 2012/13 remains at 144.6 million bags.

Rui Miguel Nabeiro, representing Delta Cafés, has been named President of of the Commercial and Industrial Association of Coffee (AICC) for the triennium 2013-2015.
The Commercial and Industrial Association of Coffee (AICC) is a non-profit association, whose main objective is to promote and disseminate the coffee and support an entire industry and business associated with it, in strict compliance with the rules of the Portuguese legal system.

Vietnam continues as leader of world exports of Robusta coffee, even with your shipments showing a decline of 44.61% in February this year compared to the same month of 2012 (2,798,248 bags of 60 kg). In the second month of 2013, the Vietnamese accounted for 49.52% of global exports of Robusta, having sold 1.550 million bags with the exterior. The data, preliminary, are the statistical report of the International Coffee Organization (ICO).

The world coffee exports fell by 11.31% in February, compared with the same month of 2012. Were shipped 8.626 million bags of 60 kg compared to 9.726 million bags in February 2012. The International Coffee Organization (ICO) released the information today.
The world exports in the first five months of coffee year 2012/13 (October 2012 to February 2013) showed an increase of about 9.6% to 46.49 million bags, compared with close to 42,410,000 of sacks in the previous period.
Source: Revista Cafeicultura

The abandonment of traditional techniques of coffee cultivation and indiscriminate use of pesticides and fungicides is increasing dramatically the spread of rust fungus that is affecting crops and coffee plantations in Central America and Mexico, informed the ecologist John Vandermeer, from the University of Michigan.
Ecologist conducted scientific studies on organic coffee plantation in southern Chiapas, Mexico, for 15 years.

The Association of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa designed on Friday (22/03) that coffee production in crop year 2013/14 could fall between 30% and 35% due to drought that hit the country.
A prolonged drought in the Vietnamese Central Highlands, the largest coffee producing region of the country, caused losses of at least 95 hectares of coffee trees and left 55 000 hectares in critical condition, the association said in a statement. The organization also noted that this year the rains were 30% below average.