Brazil frosts and its coffee region: Coldest weather in decades ravages crop for world’s biggest producer
The worst frosts since 1994 are causing major problems for the world’s largest coffee exporter and its customers
Denis Leonel, the manager of the farm Coqueiro, inspects coffee crops that were affected by frosts as a strong cold snap hit the south of the top Brazilian producer state of Minas Gerais, in Varginha, Brazil, July 30, 2021.
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By i Team
August 1, 2021 11:24 am
The extremely rare frost covering parts of Brazil has surprised and enchanted many residents, with some in their sixties seeing snow for the first time in their lives.
But the worst cold snap in nearly three decades, believed to be a result of climate change, also presents a threat to the country’s economy as it ravages coffee, sugarcane and orange crops.
The problems besetting the world’s largest producer and exporter of coffee have already been felt in New York, where coffee prices soared to above $2 per pound for the first time since 2014 this week.
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