Posted on 05/19/2014 6:37:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A fungus called coffee rusts is currently causing damages of more than $1 billion across Latin American region coffee farms, and it is affecting the prices of coffee in the United States.
...But Raj Shah, head of the USAID, said their main concern is not only on the rising price of coffee but more on the economic security of small farms abroad. He said that if farmers lose their jobs, it escalates poverty and hunger and poverty region and this will add to the problem of violence and drug trafficking.
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Mold?
Is Kona that Hawaiian coffee? Every time I have tried that I have hated it. Too bitter.
I have tried the Jamaican and it is okay.
A lot of good plants come from Columbia....................;^)
I remember Postum. Haven’t heard that name in 50 years at least.
Correct. It is Kenya, actually. It was discovered about the time the Mohammedans invaded the horn of Africa.
It was a labor intensive crop and there weren't enough Arabs to plant, cultivate and pick it. Guess what and who started the slave trade?
I don’t know what it was. It was green where green wasn’t supposed to be...................
I’d thought it was Ethiopia.......................
I thought Postum was a wheat product. Anyway, it was dropped a couple of years ago. Mormons are not pleased, as it was a decent hot drink substitute for coffee and tea.
China already processing American wild caught salmon & cod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum
Discontinued in 2007. Revived in 2012 under license to a small company in limited distribution. IIRC, Paul Harvey used to advertise it........
Fungus?!?
My town only has 3 major grocery stores now. One of them is typically high priced. This spring, however, they have been selling their store brand Columbian 34-oz for under $7. Just a couple of years ago, they were selling the same for nearly $14.
I have been stocking up by getting a can each time I go to that store, which is once or twice per month.
Walmart has been selling their large store brand can of Columbian for just under $7, but their can is the 27-oz size.
I should mention that Kona is what I recommend to folks who fear third world pesticides sprayed on their coffee. You are right, it is Hawaiian.
The locals introduced me to it. As I recall, one of them told me it was inspired by the South when they had no coffee during the Civil War. Since the South used roast corn, I assumed Postum was roast corn as well.
A quick web search shows they still sell it a specialty places like the Vermont Country Store. But it sure is pricey compared to back then, when it might have been $1.19 a jar.
I hear Chicory and Dandelion root make good coffee.
According to that impeccable source of information Wikipedia, it was Ethiopia's Kaffa Province where coffee was first discovered. It was in the southwest of the country bordering on present-day Kenya.
Now I am curious as to whether the Muslim term for slave/non-Muslim, Kaffir also originated from here.
Costco carries a reasonably priced organic coffee (San Francisco Bay brand)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory
“The cultivated chicory plant has a history reaching back to ancient Egyptian time. Medieval monks raised the plants and when coffee was introduced to Europe, the Dutch thought that chicory made a lively addition to the bean drink.
In the United States chicory root has long been used as a substitute for coffee in prisons.[54] By the 1840s, the port of New Orleans was the second largest importer of coffee (after New York).[53] Louisianans began to add chicory root to their coffee when Union naval blockades during the American Civil War cut off the port of New Orleans, thereby creating a long-standing tradition.[53]”
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