Frozen coffee crop
NZPA Rio de Janeiro Freezing temperatures in Brazil’s southern state of Parana have damaged 200 million coffee trees and the chill is expected to linger for several days yet. authorities reported yesterday. Temperatures dropped to -2 deg in several areas of Parana — Brazil’s top coffee producer — and neighbouring Rio Grande do Sul State. He.avy snowfalls were reported in both states. A spokesman for the
Parana State Agriculture Secretary said that 200 million coffee trees, of the state’s 700 ' million, had been damaged. As London brokers received private telex reports from Brazil about the adverse weather in the coffee growing areas, prices soared. From Monday morning to midday Tuesday, Ro-busta-type • green coffees rose $340 a metric ton for immediate deliveries. $270 a metric ton for November deliveries.
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