STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 27 www.haelssen-lyon.com You are looking for a sugar-free refreshment meeting the needs of your customers? Easy to prepare, offering a maximum of convenience? Using Cold Brew means, you just throw a tea bag in cold water, wait for a couple of minutes and stir or shake a little. And enjoy your cold tea – whether at home or to go. Create your individual Cold Brew with us. Organic blends and eco-friendly packaging are also realisable. Benefit from Hälssen & Lyon´s 145 years of tea expertise and our large assortment of tea specialities, herbs, fruits, and spices, sourced from over 130 countries. The ultimate refresher in tea bags Cold Brew Today, India is known for being a leader in sustainable production, as much of its coffee is shade-grown in biodiverse fields. Farmers earn additional income from growing pepper plants, cardamom, and clove and selling timber from shade trees. The biodiversity also adds unique flavor characteristics and aromatic notes to their coffee. Ready to Progress: Indonesia and Ethiopia Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee pro- ducer in the world, and Ethiopia is the fifth. After several years of stagnant or slow growth in the post-deregulation era, they are determined to significantly in- crease production rates. Most coffee pro- duced in Indonesia and Ethiopia comes from smallholder farms. Both countries face the challenge of inviting foreign in- vestors into the market while protecting their smallholders. Indonesia's volcanic-rich soil means coffee grows everywhere with arabica in the highlands and robusta in the low- lands. Yet, production rates have only in- creased by 7.7% between 2018 and 2023, and many farmers rely on other crops to support their families. While certain Indonesian varieties and processing methods, such as kopi luwak, command high prices, the average Indo- nesian coffee bean is worth much less on the international market. In 2006, the price of coffee in Lampung was valued at 1.2% to 7.5% of the retail price in consuming countries. Low income levels and urgent financial needs often cause farmers to en- gage in green-picking. Harvesting before all the coffee cherries are fully ripe lowers the quality of the final product. In an email to STiR, a representative from the Bandung Coffee Exchange in Indonesia described the issues that small- holders face. "Many coffee farms in Indonesia are located on mountains and hills, making them difficult and costly to maintain. Plus, without fertilizer subsidies, farm- ers cannot afford the necessary amount of fertilizer per tree, let alone for hun- dreds of trees on their small plots. The high maintenance costs further discour- age farmers from investing in their coffee crops, resulting in lower productivity." "The practice of 'fortress farming,' introduced by Jeffery Nielson, describes the approach of many coffee farmers in

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