CACONDE, Brazil (AP) — Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining...
CACONDE, Brazil — Silvio Almeida ’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazil ian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining moisture from rainfall and a nearby reservoir.
Brazil's harvest season that ends this month was virtually flat from last year, and exports surged, but the ongoing drought is already complicating the start of the 2025/2026 season, according to a report Monday by the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics at the University of Sao Paulo’s agribusiness school.
“It could result in a smaller coffee harvest," Serigati said. "Since the market tends to anticipate these movements, we’ve already seen the price of arabica coffee in New York and robusta in Europe trading at higher levels.”Coffee prices haven’t reached the record highs the world saw in the late 1970s, after a severe frost wiped out 70% of Brazil’s coffee plants. But they have been soaring in recent years.
“It’s not looking like it will get that much better in the near term. They will need consistent rainfall to recover,” he said.Almeida, who is also a math teacher at a local public school, helped calculate the damage for a regional association. So far, he estimates the blazes affected 519 hectares . Half was native Atlantic Forest, 30% pasture and 15% coffee plantations.
For smallholders, seeing years of cultivation reduced to ash is tough to reckon with. Last week, Martins ran through fire to save his bee boxes. Today, he is finding the strength to continue forward.Stolen customer data including medical reports from India's biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram's founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime.
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