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DEPARTMENTS Comment
Coffee World Diary
Shipping & Warehousing Plant & Machinery People
Cocoa World ICO
ICCO Profile
FEATURES CLIMATE CHANGE
A new project that was launched early in April is designed to help coffee farmers ‘retool’ in order to adapt to the effects of climate change
VIETNAM
Coffee farmers in Vietnam have been withholding coffee in anticipation of higher prices
VIETNAM
Vietnam is fast emerging as a leading producer of cocoa ROBUSTA
A Fine Robusta projects aims to do for Robusta what specialty coffee projects have achieved for high quality Arabica
INTERNATIONAL
Coffee prices may be at historic highs but producers seem in no rush to invest in increasing production
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Consumption in South Korea continues to increase and although mainly a soluble market is seeing increased interest in higher quality products
IN-PLANT MATERIALS HANDLING Cablevey in the US has recently supplied conveying equipment
for coffee and for cocoa IN-PLANT MATERIALS HANDLING
Spiroflow has launched a new range of conveying equipment WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
Pollination may play a much more important role in cocoa production than hitherto understood
EUROPEAN IMPORT FACILITIES
Warehouse keeper C Steinweg Handelsveem has adopted a temperature controlled regime in its warehouses to combat pests in soft commodities
COVER
In its ‘Eco-Cocoa’ project, Helvetas, the Swiss association for international co-operation, is providing cocoa farmers in Vietnam with the expertise they need to farm in a sustainable manner, and grow organic cocoa for the Fair Trade market (photo: Helvetas)
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May 2011
Fine Robusta project to create viable future for producers
Price pressure won’t make roaster compromise on quality
High prices unlikely to lead to big jump in output
Overseas assistance
empowers Vietnamese producers
May 2011 C&CI
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