Coffee may perk up as Brazil drought hurts robusta crop
New York
THE outlook for Brazil's robusta coffee crop, the world's second-largest, has worsened in recent weeks amid drier-than-normal weather, fuelling speculation that prices will find support.
Coffee-growing areas in Espirito Santo, the country's biggest robusta producer, got about 50 per cent of the usual rainfall in the past three weeks, with more below-normal precipitation forecast through early March, according to Speedwell Weather in Charleston, South Carolina.
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