Brazil's coffee farmers turn to costly irrigation to quench global demand for the brew

Brazil's coffee farmers turn to costly irrigation to quench global demand for the brew

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Last year, the drought hit coffee farmers in Brazil hard, withered trees and driven world market prices to record heights. However, huge plantations in the savannah of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia look quite different from the mountain slope farms and goods typical of coffee growing in large parts of Latin America. [...] The post Brazil's coffee farmers rely on expensive irrigation first appeared on latinapress news.