Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story- THE PROBLEM OF COFFEE WHITE STEM BORER AND THE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (#)

  „If good rainfall is received during North East monsoon period also will be advantageous in the management of stem borer. All the growers need to complete borer tracing and destruction by September end especially by making use of the incentive provided by the Coffee Board. Application of pesticide during October second half/ early November in fields with higher levels of incidence would become necessary to provide protection to the healthy plants. An intensive programme to establish shade, especially at middle level, also our enemy, the white stem borer or loose our heart when borer is taking an upper hand under favourable conditions.“

http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/aug/ cover_story.html - Cached

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  „Financial Times, 7 September 2001Later that week, the FT ran a story on the growing disquiet among coffee growers. The Federation of Ivorian Coffee and Cocoa Producers, they reported, called on its members to launch a nationwide strike. New York Times, 11 September 2001 The NY Times ran a colourful piece by Katherine Zoepf on Hanoi's Café Society. Almost unique amongst their neighbours, Vietnam has a thriving café culture.“

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Global Exchange : Coffee growers make case

  „That's the choice that members of coffee grower cooperatives want Americans to make. It's the difference, they say, in whether coffee growers continue to struggle financially until they're forced to abandon their farms, or they and their families gain some quality of life.“

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India coffee - News - Rise in coffee prices not enough, feel growers

  „The debt burden on the coffee industry currently amounts to over Rs 1,300 crore, including an interest component of Rs 300 crore. "There is a need for the Government to repay the interest burden to the Banks, thereby providing relief to the growers," said Mr Anil Bhandari, Chairman, United Planters Association of Southern India said, adding that such relief was not new. It already existed for other agricultural commodities besides a few select industries, including the public sector, he said.“

http://www.indiacoffee.org/news/2004/11/ nov4.html - Cached

Fairtrade | Suppliers | Growers | Alberto, Fairtrade sugar grower

  „He also points out the tremendous environmental benefits that result from selling to the organic Fairtrade market. 'It's something that has benefited the village of Jaris directly, and also the whole region.' In the past, farmers burnt petrol-soaked tyres in the furnaces that boil the cane syrup. They also cut down trees for fuel. Now there has been a lot of reforestation in the valley, and farmers have invested in improved organic furnaces that can burn the waste stalks of the cane.“

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