RED ALERT! Guatemala declares national coffee emergency

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Guatemala declares national coffee emergency


Guatemala declares national emergency to deal with spread of fungus devastating coffee crops

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's president declared a national emergency Friday over the spread of coffee rust, saying the fungus that has hit other Central American countries is affecting 70 percent of this nation's crop.

President Otto Molina Perez ordered the release of more than $14 million to aid coffee growers. He said the funds would help 60,000 small farmers buy pesticides and also finance instruction to teach them how to prevent the disease and stop it from spreading.

"If we don't take the needed measures, in 2013-2014 our production could drop by 40 percent," Molina said in making his country the third in the region to decree emergencies in recent weeks.

Coffee rust, which can kill plants by withering their leaves, also is affecting plantations in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. Mexico's agriculture authorities said the fungus has been detected there but so far has not damaged plants.

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http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-declares-national-coffee-emergency-232718868.html

 

[Tryharder62]

I know of some people I will not want to be around if there is a coffee shortage.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Guatemala declares national coffee emergency


Guatemala declares national emergency to deal with spread of fungus devastating coffee crops

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's president declared a national emergency Friday over the spread of coffee rust, saying the fungus that has hit other Central American countries is affecting 70 percent of this nation's crop.

President Otto Molina Perez ordered the release of more than $14 million to aid coffee growers. He said the funds would help 60,000 small farmers buy pesticides and also finance instruction to teach them how to prevent the disease and stop it from spreading.

"If we don't take the needed measures, in 2013-2014 our production could drop by 40 percent," Molina said in making his country the third in the region to decree emergencies in recent weeks.

Coffee rust, which can kill plants by withering their leaves, also is affecting plantations in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. Mexico's agriculture authorities said the fungus has been detected there but so far has not damaged plants.

More...

http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-declares-national-coffee-emergency-232718868.html

What would Juan Valdez do?

 

[fgarvb1]

What would Juan Valdez do?

Load that mule up with coffee and Haul ass across the border!

 

[SuprSalor]

Guatemala declares national coffee emergency


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President Otto Molina Perez ordered the release of more than $14 million to aid coffee growers.

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Lazy welfare recipients.. smoking the obama juice.. hope they lose the right to live..

 

[KingOrfeo]

I know of some people I will not want to be around if there is a coffee shortage.

[cue panic-scene from Airplane II]

 

[badbabysitter]

Coffee is the second most traded commodity on the planet... salt being the first


laugh all you want, but if we were to run out of either tomorrow, the entire global economy would collapse

 

[1sickbastard]

Coffee is the second most traded commodity on the planet... salt being the first


laugh all you want, but if we were to run out of either tomorrow, the entire global economy would collapse

Brazil maintains a 'strategic' stockpile for cases just like this.

Buy coffee futures now, folks.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Coffee is the second most traded commodity on the planet... salt being the first


laugh all you want, but if we were to run out of either tomorrow, the entire global economy would collapse

What about tea?

During World War II, Britain shipped, by weight, more tea to her troops than anything save bullets. Small arms ammunition, that is: the British army got through more tea than artillery shells. By weight. Contemporary soldier Spike Milligan observed that they were damn lucky that Rommel never tried baiting minefields with tea.
◦ Arthur C. Clarke recounted in his autobiography that during WWII, one of his jobs in the civil service was to coordinate the dispersal of tea stockpiles throughout the country, as the government feared civil disorder if the main warehouses were taken out by a chance bombing.
◦ In 1942 the Luftwaffe decided that, deprived of tea, the British Empire would pretty much grind to a halt. They therefore decided to bomb Mincing Lane - center of all British and Imperial tea trading - flat. It worked too. The tea industry was sent into chaos and tea was rationed to two ounces a week - which is very very little. From a morale point of view it was one of the most successful bombing strategies of the war.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Guatemala declares national coffee emergency


Guatemala declares national emergency to deal with spread of fungus devastating coffee crops

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's president declared a national emergency Friday over the spread of coffee rust, saying the fungus that has hit other Central American countries is affecting 70 percent of this nation's crop.

President Otto Molina Perez ordered the release of more than $14 million to aid coffee growers. He said the funds would help 60,000 small farmers buy pesticides and also finance instruction to teach them how to prevent the disease and stop it from spreading.

"If we don't take the needed measures, in 2013-2014 our production could drop by 40 percent," Molina said in making his country the third in the region to decree emergencies in recent weeks.

Coffee rust, which can kill plants by withering their leaves, also is affecting plantations in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. Mexico's agriculture authorities said the fungus has been detected there but so far has not damaged plants.

More...

http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-declares-national-coffee-emergency-232718868.html

Guatemala is a banana republic.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Was once, maybe. Apparently it's now a coffee republic.

 

[Ishmael]

I know of some people I will not want to be around if there is a coffee shortage.

I'm one of them.

Ishmael

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

my coffee comes straight outta puerto rico... CAFE BUSTELO!

 

[Mike_Yates]

Columbia and Guatemala's economies are almost entirely dependent on coffee.

This is known in political science as a banana republic.

 

[John Doe]

What would Juan Valdez do?

Or his brother Exxon?

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

from what i heard, colombia just had an earthquake 6.9 an no1 got hurt.