Coffee output may drop as rain lashes plantations
The Hindu
Untimely rains and hailstones that lashed plantations in the last six days causing large-scale berry dropping is expected to impact arabica and robusta coffee production by 30% for 2020-21 crop year, as per estimates by planters.
After two flood-hit years, coffee growers in the country were expecting better yield this year, but unexpected rains and hailstones impacted thousands of hectares of coffee plantations amidst the harvest, resulting in ripened berries to split open and drop.
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