Absolute historic drought in Brazil is expected to cause a 40 percent drop in productivity.

Brazil has about a third of the world’s coffee supply and it rightfully holds the title of world’s largest producer of coffee. However, local farmers, who are the growers of coffee, are very affected by the three month drought, so now they assign all forces to restore stocks, and meanwhile prices for beans increasing. Despite the fact that weather conditions have improved, but Brazilian officials are not very optimistic.

Neri Geller, the Minister of Agriculture of Brazil said that more crops they should not have to wait until the next year because Brazil has experienced one of the worst droughts in last 50 years.

Last week Washington Rodrigues, CEO of Brazil-based Ipanema, said: “It’s a mistake to suppose that coming rains will solve the problems we’ve had. Once vegetative growth is lose, you don’t recover it.”

Under normal favorable weather conditions, farmers can harvest, in an average about 110 pounds of green beans and 220 pounds of cherries from a tree. According to the BBC, recently farmers only received about 66 pounds of the same amount of cherries; cause of this is a catastrophic water shortage.

Source - http://www.athletenewswire.com/