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Coffee production has been increasing in China, but imports of the product tend to grow over the coming years.

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.

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) released on Friday, the stock of world exports sector. In the first ten months of the 2012/2013 harvest, exports grew 3.6% compared to the same period of the previous crop and reached 94.48 million bags. Brazil has better performance than the global average and shipment of Brazilian production is 7.4% higher than that observed in the previous harvest.

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."

The coffee crop of Guatemala in the period 2013/2014 may have a drop of 40%, informed the local media and the National Coffee Association (Anacafé). The motive of the attack is called roya fungus that causes coffee rust. Should be harvested 2.4 million quintals, which is equivalent to 240 tons. In the period 2011/2012, were 4.8 million quintals (480.000 tons). In the period 2012/2013 were 4.1 million (410 thousand tons). Under the direction of Anacafé losses occurred in crops where farmers have not applied a second dose of fungicide on plants infected by the fungus roya.

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.

Coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of recurrence of prostate cancer, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA, advances the portal Isaúde.
The results show that bioactive compounds in coffee and tea can prevent the disease returning and delay its progression.

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.

The abandonment of coffee production in Mexico is partly due to the fact that the Federal Government has allowed the entry of Central American coffee with lower quality than national "but more economic."
According to Obdulio Bandala Jiménez, large companies buy this cheap product, supplying their demand and stop buying Mexican coffee.

With the worsening of the outbreak of coffee rust in social and economic terms, the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (NFC) will host a seminar to this reality, in order to share information and increase their visibility.
In 2008, Colombia had suffered the devastating effects of the outbreak of coffee rust. In direct response to recent outbreaks in Central America and Peru, the body promoted several initiatives, in late 2012, to help find solutions through the sharing of experiences and collaboration with colleagues from Central America.