Climate change is destroying Central American coffee farms
7 hours ago
Kate Morrissey, Tribune news service
Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms.
Joaquin Solorzano, a coffee farmer and advocate for Nicaraguan growers, pointed at the cherries on a cluster of coffee plants visible from the winding mountain highway that was eerily empty during the 2019 harvest.
“Look, it’s red,” Solorzano said. “It should be picked, but no one is picking it right now because they won’t get much money for it. Most of the coffee falls.”
With coffee production in other countries driving down prices and droughts and storms wreaking havoc, coffee farmers in Central America have had to make tough choices in recent years.
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So much would have to be done so quickly to turn this wreck around.
It's all about the same climate, etc., right?
