date:Dec 18, 2012
conservation and how to establish community nurseries to grow young coffee plantlets.
To help farmers renew their crops, Nestl is also propagating and distributing coffee plant varieties that produce more beans and have a greater resistance to drought and certain diseases.
In Colombia, the company distributed more than four million disease-resistant coffee plantlets to farmers in 2011 through its partnership with the Colombian Coffee Growers Association.
The plantlets are particularly resist