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Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever

16/05/2013

Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry amid a deep economic crisis.
Farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (39,900 kilograms) of coffee during the most recent harvest, which represents only a third of local consumption, Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas said Thursday.
Production in previous years has fluctuated between 105,000 pounds (47,600 kilograms) and 150,000 pounds (68,000 kilograms), according to department statistics.

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Improves indices of coffee production in Angola

15/05/2013

The indices of coffee production have improved significantly in recent years, the province of Uige, fruit enlargement of the areas of action for the culture, reported today (Wednesday), ANGOP, in this city, the local director of INCA, Vasco Gonçalves. According to him, last year were harvested five thousand tons of coffee mabuba and this year is expected to harvest in order of around six tonnes of coffee mabuba, which equates to about three thousand tons of commercial coffee.

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Situation caused by the coffee rust in Central America is critical

15/05/2013

The Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), Robério Silva in an exclusive interview with Coffee Break, said the situation of coffee producers of the five countries he visited in Central America is "distressing and disturbing." Robério visited Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to check closely the damage caused by the outbreak of rust in coffee. "Come on in the crop and realized what caused the disease, all the foliage is on the ground," said the director of the ICO.

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Uganda increased by 7% its projection coffee production for 2012/13 crop

10/05/2013

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.

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Coffee reduces by half the recurrence of breast cancer

08/05/2013

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.

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AICC promoted coffee consumption

23/04/2013

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 .

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