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  „It says multinational coffee companies are making large profits by charging consumers in rich countries 1,500 percent more than farmers in poor countries are paid for their beans. Coffee prices on the world market average US$1.10 a kilogram, while production cost is around $1.76. "The worst may be over for embattled coffee growers like us, with prices finally rising off record lows," said Nguyen Trong, owner of nearly 20 hectares [49 acres] of coffee plantation in Daklak province in the country's central highlands. "The surging prices are due to the increase of coffee prices in the world market and the decrease of the country's coffee output," said the chairman of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association, Doan Trieu Nhan.“

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  „The world's coffee prices go up and down, depending partly on supply and demand and speculation by big investors. But these farmers are stuck in poverty. They sell their beans to local businessmen whom they derisively call 'coyotes,' and the coyotes pay them less than 50 cents per pound.“

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  „Nearly all coffee beans are imported from Third World countries, and of the world's production, beans from small farmers make up the vast majority. Yet, most small scale farmers are living in near poverty conditions. Mexico's premier coffee organization, Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Cafetaleras, reports that, although coffee generated $658 million in Mexico last season and is the nation's number one export crop, a small grower's average annual income is only $650 in U.S. dollars.“

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  „The price for green coffee beans, the worlds most widely traded commodity after oil, has hit its lowest level in 100 years. For small farmers, who grow over half of the world’s crop, the situation has gone from difficult to catastrophic. A two-year slump in prices – from $1.45 in December 1999 to 45 cents today – has created an ongoing economic disaster in dozens of developing countries.“

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  „If farmers object, the middlemen simply turn elsewhere. If coffee is too expensive in one country, buyers simply turn to another.“

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  „Regarding that supply, both the planting and harvesting schedules chosen by coffee farmers will affect the availability of green beans in the marketplace. A tree planted by a farmer today will not yield a crop for another three to five years, so coffee growers have to be both agronomist and seer. It stands to reason that coffee growers want to plant only to the extent that their harvest will be a profitable one, so tracking the trends in coffee consumption as well as the global coffee yields become key considerations when deciding how much to plant.“

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