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New Varieties Improve Quality & Reduce Costs in Brazil
Posted Jan 12, 2021 in From the Field
Three newer varieties are making high cupping, lower-cost coffees more accessible in Brazil. Even as roasters are increasingly seeking high-cupping single-variety Bourbon lots from Brazil, growing these disease-susceptible varieties is becoming a riskier and less appealing option for producers. In the last decade, however, 3 newer varieties have entered the playing field and results seem to suggest that this era of the outright trade-off is over.