Brazilian coffee farmers turn to grow Robusta Arabica coffee beans decline.
There is no doubt that climate change has had a profound impact on the coffee industry. A Reuters article on Aug. 16 revealed the rise of Robusta Coffee.
Farmers in Brazil, the world's largest producer of coffee beans and Arabica coffee beans, are turning to robusta coffee beans, which are more intense and unpleasant. There are signs that the Robusta variety is more resistant to high temperatures than the Arabica variety.
There are precedents for planting other varieties as a result of climate change. Colombian growers, for example, grow more adaptable varieties of Arabica and Robusta coffee (Castillo Castillo); from growing coffee alone to growing cocoa to abandoning coffee on a large scale and moving to more profitable crops.
Now, some growers in Brazil hope to protect against the effects of climate change by growing medium-grain coffee, known as Robusta.
Although Brazil is the largest producer of Arabica coffee beans, its output has been basically flat in the past five years. At the same time, data show that Brazil's Robusta coffee production has increased significantly. Arabica's market share has been declining, from 70% of global production to about 60%, and that number is likely to fall further as more Brazilian farmers favor and turn to robusta.
The rise in Brazilian robusta coffee production is also threatening Vietnam's position as the largest producer of robusta coffee for a long time. "at the same level of technology, it produces almost twice as much as it does now," Enrique Alves, a coffee seed grower at Brazilian agricultural research company Embrapa, told Reuters.
In the past three seasons, Brazil's Robusta production has risen 20% to 20.2 million bags (60 kg / bag), according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Meanwhile, Vietnam's Robusta coffee production fell 5 per cent to 28 million bags.
Southeast Asian countries have a solid position as the world's largest exporter of robusta coffee. Last season, Vietnam exported 23.6 million bags of robusta beans, while Brazil, in second place, exported 4.9 million bags of robusta beans.
As the cultivation of Arabica is affected by droughts, frosts, floods and other unpredictable weather related to climate change, robusta coffee grown in Brazil may become part of people's daily coffee consumption.
Carlos Santana, a coffee trader who works for Eisa Interagricola, a subsidiary of the Swiss group ECOM Agroindustrial, said: "I'm sure the world will use a lot of Brazilian robusta coffee in the near future."
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