Nicaragua advances in battle worth coffee rust

Coffee exports from Nicaragua rose 84 percent in December compared with the same month during the previous cycle to total 47,746 60-kg bags, the national export center Cetrex said on Friday.

The coffee crop in Nicaragua is expected to rise 7 percent in the 2014/2015 season compared with the previous cycle to reach 1.61 million bags as a result of advances in the control of the tree-killing fungus coffee rust, which has battered coffee farmers across the region over the past couple of seasons.



Source: Business Recorder