BBC News | BUSINESS | Quality focus boosts coffee growers (#)
„Andrew Enever reports from Bolivia. Coffee production has been a bad business in recent times. A massive increase in world production has hit the price of beans on the New York coffee market, where coffee fell from a 10-year average of around $1.20 per pound to an all-time low of only $0.42 per pound earlier this year. When I went into coffee nobody knew Panama produced anything except Noriega Price Peters, coffee producer However, in the lush tropical Andean valleys, a short, steep descent from Bolivia's capital La Paz, experts from Colombia and Panama are persuading producers to pay greater attention to their plantations.“
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BBC NEWS | Business | Coffee buzz lifts wartorn Rwanda
„ Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee “
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BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee
„Are there other factors that influence the level of world coffee production? Sometimes storms, a late frost, crop disease, war, exchange rate fluctuations or other unpredictable events can force coffee farmers out of business. While at other times, centralised political decisions to produce more or less will affect output levels. Small farmers are often encouraged to grow more coffee by governments eager to boost their exports earnings.“
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„Coffee FactsCoffee beans grow on small trees.It takes the annual yield of one tree to produce one pound of roasted beans.Coffee beans are grown in subtropical regions around the world.The biggest growers are Brazil and Columbia.Commercial coffee crops are of two main types: Robustas and Arabicas.Robusta coffee has twice as much caffeine as Arabica.It takes about 40 beans to make an espresso.Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans are the most expensive in the world.Coffee beans of several types are roasted together to produce appealing flavours.Coffee can be used as a breakfast drink (or as just plain breakfast), with a luncheon snack, or for after-dinner with desert. Not only does it wake you up and keep you going, but the smell also invigorates the room that you are in. However, coffee does not have to be taken alone: there are a myriad of coffee snacks, which enliven the experience.“
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BBC News | BUSINESS | Globalisation and me
„I was amazed to discover that coffee grows as two green beans inside a bright red cherry, the finest coffee is hand-picked by small poor farmer, subject to weather and market fluctuations and can pass through as many as fifty hands on its way to my cup each making a buck on the way, except the farmers. Frenzied trading All Arabica coffee is traded on the coffee, sugar and cocoa exchange in New York where in frenzied trading pits producers, roasters and scalpers shout at the top of their voices and wave their hands frantically trading future contracts of coffee in units of 38,500 pounds without a coffee bean in sight. Now the coffee price has fallen to an all time low. And that is due to Vietnam (of all places) quickly becoming the second largest producer of coffee in the world.“
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BBC - Food - Recipes - Broad Bean Pesto
„Place the beans in a medium bowl and then pour over enough boiled water to cover the beans. Set aside for 2-3 minutes.“
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