STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 21 BUILD YOUR TEA We develop individual packaging solutions according to your needs. Environmentally friendly, too. Hälssen & Lyon offers a unique range of premium teas, fruit blends, herbal infusi- ons, tea specialities, and instant products for your custom-made tea. Furthermore, we provide you with a large choice of packaging options. Do you want to launch an eco-friendly tea product? We are there to help with our longstanding expertise in producing tea products with packaging from naturally renewable raw materials. Beyond that, we can assist you with the planning of your production and the further development of your innovative product line to your customers' full satisfaction. Add your brand design and the product is ready to enter the market with impact, quality, and individuality! www.haelssen-lyon.com Areas where change must be made by both the government and producers, as identified by experts at the Rome headquarters of FAO: - Soil management including pH amend- ments, conservation practices such as mulching, soil analysis for proper diagnosis and nutrients application when needed; - Integrated pest and disease management including proper and timely sampling, identifica- tion, prevention methods such as cultural, ge- netic and biological and control; - Weeds control; - Renewing old plantations with new grafted resistant varieties; - Proper pruning; - Efficient water management and opportu- nities for irrigation; - Diversified cropping systems to support environmental protection, social equity and in- come generation even when coffee prices fall. This include agroforestry, associating the coffee with shade trees (Acacia albida, Leucena leu- cocephala, Cordial africana, Grevillea robusta). The preference is for those which belong to the legume family, and which thereby fix atmospher- ic nitrogen. This effort aims to provide for wind protection, while also adding organic matter to the soil, conserving soil and water, minimizing erosion and reducing evapotranspiration. Addi- tionally, intercropping would use species such as banana, macadamia, papaya, coconut, mango, avocado or jackfruit to increase biodiversity and income sources. at US$3,370, the country faces some very big challenges. This per capita annual income is relatively high when compared to other sub- Saharan African countries, and it's almost re- markable for a least developed country (LDC). Before the pandemic, there was steady growth in per capita GDP rising from $745 in 2000 to $2,658 in 2019. However, despite the growth over time, the most recent trend shows GDP falling. The decline is due to the combined effect of oil price changes and Covid-19. An- gola's chronically weak productive capacities will only strengthen with the structural trans- formation in its economy. Development is limited despite the ex- ceptional improvement in per capita GDP, progress in economic diversification, and advances in social and human-capital. These challenges are daunting. Angola remains heavily dependent on oil, which accounts for 93% of the nation's total merchandise exports (as measured in 2019). The decline in international oil prices aggravated the vul- nerability of the country to external shocks.

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