Colombia is best known in the coffee world as a producer of high quality Arabica coffees. However, there are many varieties of Arabica grown in Colombia. Coffee farmers choose to grow coffees varieties that offer superior flavor, high yield, and provide resistance to coffee leaf rust, which has the potential to destroy all of the […]
Read More...When coffee growers in Colombia sell their coffee harvest, the price is based on the New York commodity price, the USD to COP exchange rate, and a premium for coffee grown in Colombia. Colombia is the world’s biggest producer of Arabica coffee. Virtually no Robusta is grown in Colombia! The soil, weather conditions, coffee-growing culture, […]
Read More...There is a fungus that infests coffee plants and threatens the world’s supply of Arabica coffee. It is coffee leaf rust in English and La Roja to Colombian coffee growers. This fungus is also the reason that the English converted from coffee drinkers to tea drinkers in the 19th century. In that era the main […]
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