BBC NEWS | Business | Kenyan coffee faces tough 2003 (#)

  „In New York on Monday, arabica coffee futures were selling for 57 US cents a pound, little more than two thirds the 80-100 cent level some experts see as "normal".“

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  „Arabica coffee futures for July delivery, a little above the six-month lows of two weeks ago, will begin the new week Monday from 66.45 cents a pound on New York's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange.“

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BBC NEWS | Business | East African coffee growers fight back

  „Coffee prices reached their lowest level for almost 40 years at the start of 2002. Kenya produces some of the world's top grade Arabica coffee beans but quality and output have fallen because the poor prices have persuaded farmers to turn to other crops. "If the quality of the coffee produced in the regions improves, then farmers will get better prices," Mr Kawuma said. The EAFCA hopes it can improve coffee growing practices which have deteriorated as earnings have fallen.“

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BBC News | AFRICA | Kenya's poison brew toll rises

  „Thursday, 16 November, 2000, 10:40 GMT Kenya's poison brew toll rises Many survivors have lost their sight Police in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, say the death toll from a contaminated alcoholic brew has risen to 66 with a further 277 hospitalised, many of them having lost their sight. I started vomiting in the morning and then I realised I could not see Chang'aa drinker The spokesman said 12 women have been arrested in connection with the deaths but the source of the brew, known as chang'aa, has not been traced. Residents in a Nairobi suburb awoke on Wednesday morning to find dead bodies lying in the gutter near the local chang'aa den and casualties were still arriving in hospitals on Thursday. Medical authorities think the brew may have been adulterated with methanol.“

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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Coffee crisis in Ethiopia

  „He said Ethiopian government plans to protect three forest fragments have foundered for lack of cash. Arabica beans are so widely used they are the most valuable international commodity after oil. Most of the coffee is grown on plantations outside Ethiopia from a handful of cultivated varieties created from a few individual bushes. But these plantations are at risk from disease, such as the coffee rust that hit Brazil in the 1970s.“

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_800000/ 800356.stm - Cached

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  „Arabica coffee futures for December delivery ended the week at 80.15 cents a pound on New York's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange.“

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