Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending July 14th

This week in coffee news:

• Ethiopian coffee is becoming ever more popular in China, and Ethiopian exporters are looking to take advantage.
• Australia’s much-vaunted coffee industry is suffering under the strains of inflation and the worldwide cost-of-living crisis. This is causing many cafes to close (while, predictably, blaming rising wages).
• Researchers in Hawaii have found that cultural control-focused management—field sanitation, frequent harvesting, and strip-picking with relatively little applied pesticide—is more effective against the coffee berry borer than simply spraying the plants with pesticides. Bonus: higher net profits.

Plus there’s lots more union happenings. Read the full roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

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