date:Aug 27, 2014
A prolonged drought in Brazil has already claimed a substantial amount of the country's coffee crop. Next year could be even worse as the country heads for the first three-year output decline since 1965.
Production in Brazil, the worlds top grower, may drop as much as 18 per cent to 40.1 million bags when the harvest ends next month, the National Coffee Council estimates, after a 3.1 per cent slide last year. With damage worsening before the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the counc