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Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Central America is scrambling to contain a coffee-eating fungus that has invaded a third of the impoverished region's crops, threatening to cost the vital industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Entire families depend on work from the coffee-growing industry in Central America, which employs more than 1.5 million people to produce one of the world's most renowned Arabica beans. But in September, two months before the annual harvest, the fungus known as roya began to spread due to a lack of...
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