STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 23 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 Brazil's most suitable areas over the next 50 years. In, Colombia viable acreage would shrink by 63%. A 2022 study by the International Coffee Organization projects that four of the top five producers of coffee in the world (Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, and Indonesia) will see their best coffee growing areas decrease in size and suit- ability. These and other studies name a variety of causes: drought, floods, coffee leaf rust (CLR), other pests. But the fac- tor behind all of them is climate change. Coffee is an especially finicky crop that does not like changes in seasonal weather. Disruption of weather patterns and seasons affect the bush's growth phase, flowering phase, and ripening phase. Excess rain causes berries to fall while still green, making them unusable. Even a moderate lack or excess of sun- light can ruin a harvest. And climate change is not only about warming. Last year, abnormally cold weather caused a destructive wave of frost in Brazil, reducing output by 30–50%. This year, severe rains flooded fields in Brazil's main coffee-producing region, Minas Gerais, and entire harvests were lost. Then there's water scarcity. The growing impact of the 2020 drought may hinder flowering prospects for Brazil's 2022 crop. And this comes after the 2021 harvest dropped 25.7% to yield one of the smallest Brazilian crops in 10 years. The Brazilian Arabica harvest has the po- tential to be corrected down by 3-4 mil- lion bags from the estimate at the early harvest, according to Comunicaffe. But wait, it gets worse. Pests like cof- fee berry borer and CLR thrive from in- creased temperatures, making vast new areas hospitable to infestation. Rust is spreading to places where it wasn't a problem even 20 years ago. Coffee berry borer, previously found only below 1,500 meters above sea level, is now found on Mount Kilimanjaro, at elevations 300 meters higher than where it found was 20 years ago. An infestation by borer beetle alone can destroy 60% of a coffee crop. Beyond these pressures is price volatility — coffee prices on the NYSE dropped below production cost for the first time ever in 2019. Unsurprisingly, many farmers in Lat- in America decided to leave the sector.

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