RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Honduras, Central America's largest coffee exporter, has reduced its 2020/21 coffee shipment projection by 8.3% due to deeper than initially estimated rust damage to crops, said Napoleón Matute, head of the Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFÉ).
He explained that the humidity caused by the devastating floods from hurricanes Eta and Iota late last year encouraged the spread of rust, damaging coffee crops.
"The more than 25 days of rainfall from storms Eta and Iota created a degree of humidity on farms and spurred the disease," Matute said on Wednesday.
Matute said that IHCAF . . .
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