Increased domestic coffee consumption might force India to import coffee beans from Latin and Central America if local output and productivity don’t increase significantly, industry representatives said.

Con un incremento del 10 por ciento en sus ventas de café a los Estados Unidos, durante los 7 primeros meses del año, Brasil se acerca peligrosamente hacia la posibilidad de desplazar a Colombia como primer proveedor cafetero,…

Coffee output in Colombia, the world’s third-largest producer, may increase by as much as 18 percent next year as new crops begin to flower and warmer weather helps boost yields, the head of an exporters group said.

Orange juice was the star commodity Friday, outshining gold, which slumped after three days of hitting record highs. November orange juice futures surged 10.1 percent, adding 10 cents to settle at $1.0865 a pound after the U.S.D.A. forecast a big drop…

Frozen concentrated orange juice futures for November delivery closed at their exchange-imposed limit of 10 cents a pound Friday on a report that revealed a much-smaller-than-expected Florida orange crop.

The 2009-10 Florida all orange forecast released today by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board is 136.0 million boxes. This forecast is 16 percent less than the final production of 162.4 million boxes last season and 20 percent less than the 170.2 million…

Amid the current economic gloom, Doug Olsen says he realizes he’s lucky to be an Oregon hazelnut grower. The 2009 harvest has hit full swing earlier than normal, with growers reaping ample quantities of high-quality nuts.

Speculative buying left ICE Futures U.S. arabica coffee near two-month highs Thursday as the U.S. dollar dropped and commodities and equities rallied. December coffee settled up 365 points at $1.3790 a pound, off of the $1.39 high,…

Dr Nestor Osario, the head of the London-based International Coffee Organisation (ICO), has been associated with the global coffee sector for years and his expertise makes him one of the key spokespersons of an item which is the second…

Brazilian coffee crops were hurt last month by the heaviest rains in about half a century, reducing bean quality and threatening to pare exports, Brazil’s biggest coffee growers’ cooperative said.

Honduras tendrá una producción exportable récord de café esta temporada por un positivo efecto estacional y programas de fomento, según un grupo privado, en un panorama que choca con la crisis política que vive el segundo país productor…

In the early 1990s, his community of mostly indigenous farmers was given the opportunity to work for themselves and taught how to grow and process world-class coffee sought after by buyers such as Starbucks and Equal Exchange.

Some athletes are turning to a lip-puckering remedy for post-workout pain and weakness: tart cherry juice. The juice can be hard to swallow, but the claim is that it diminishes muscle pain and soreness as well as, or better than,…

The almond harvest neared completion in the Central Valley as hulling and stockpile fumigations continued. As part of post-harvest maintenance, some almond orchards were pruned. The walnut and pistachio harvests accelerated…

Baobab is rich in the antioxidant vitamin C, as well as several other vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Baobab dried fruit pulp, or BDFP for short, is derived from the fruit of a tree that grows primarily in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe,…

Esta modalidad otorgará un importante valor agregado al producto y un incremento en el rendimiento de la producción. Las autoridades destacaron que “esta obra generará un fuerte impacto en la economía local”.