Drought hit coffee farmers in Brazil hard last year, drying up trees and driving global prices to record highs. As he inspects rows of plants laden with green coffee cherries, a long irrigation arm passes overhead nearby. “This is looking very good,” said Brondani, the lead manager at the Joha farm, which has 900 hectares (2,224 acres) of irrigated coffee fields – more than 20 times bigger than the average coffee farm in Brazil.Read More
Brazil’s coffee farmers turn to costly irrigation to quench global demand for the brew
