Does A Farmer's Choice of Products Affect Adoption of New Technologies? (#)
„Conducted in the poor but agriculturallydiverse Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the studyuses statistical cluster analysis to identify farms by their productmix. Farms, assigned to groups according to the share of farmoutput devoted to a particular product, are divided into fivecategories: farms that produce coffee, corn products, dairy products,and rice; off-farm labor is the fifth category. These categoriesserve as a basis for examining the factors that influence adoptionof new technologies such as the size and scale of operation ofa farm, its expenditure on modern inputs, its degree of specialization(the diversity of its agricultural products), and the qualityof its land. Despite varying agroecological conditions, farmerscan readily change their product mix among coffee, corn, and dairyproducts, and off-farm labor, but rice requires flat, irrigatedland.“
http://www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/newsletter/june97/ 9ifpri.html - Cached
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Tea & Coffee 06/03 - World News
„BRAZIL - Minas Gerais took back the leadership position among the best coffee producers in the country, winning First Place in the Brazilian Quality Coffee for Espresso Awards, offered annually by the Italian coffee roaster illycaffè. The winner is Paulo Takano, from Patrocínio, which is 338 km from Belo Horizonte (MG). The state, the traditional winner of the award, regained the domination it lost last year when producers from Sao Paulo took 1st, 3rd and 9th positions.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0603/world.htm
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International Coffee Organization
„Néstor Osorio, was invited to participate at the inauguration of the coffee meeting held by the Brazilian coffee roasters' association, ABIC, in the State of Bahia, Brazil this month. At this meeting, the ABIC presented a progress report on its quality programme, and revealed that domestic consumption of coffee in Brazil in 2003/04 had risen to 14.3 million bags. In his address, the Executive Director highlighted the success of Brazil in promoting domestic consumption and noted that the ICO had taken this experience as a basis for promotion in other producing countries. In this context, the ICO has sponsored a manual prepared by a Brazilian consultancy which gives detailed practical information on how to encourage consumption in producing countries.“
http://www.ico.org/home.htm
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Brazilian Scientists Decode the Coffee Genome - National Coffee Association
„New genetically resistant plants hold the promise of doubling coffee production per hectare, from 15 to 30 bags. At the same time, these plants would enable Brazil to cut production costs by 20 percent. Together, these factors could raise annual national production to 60 million bags without the expansion of its current growing area.“
http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/ headlinedetails.cfm?id=266&returnto=1
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CoffeeGeek - Espresso: Espresso Blends, Decent beans in NYC?
„Porto Rico ain't what it used to be and Oren's (does it still exist)was never very good to begin with.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/espresso/blends/ 18108
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Specialty Coffee Bulletin Board :: View topic - Single Origin Shots revisited
„Actually, speaking of Brazils and Cup of Excellence, I was in Diedrich's Coffee this morning where they were serving Brazil Cup of Excellence 2004 winning coffee which was pretty good for a coffee that doesn't even exist yet since the 2004 Brazil competition doesn't start until December. Oh those silly marketing people what will they think up next?“
http://www.scaa.org/.../ viewtopic.php?t=640&sid=c252701a1da761e54e0ca51fb7ebc041
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