Devastating Brazil Rains Likely Spared Most Of Minas Coffee Fields
From: reuters.com
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The devastating rains that triggered landslides and flooding in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state over the past week and brought more than 50 deaths apparently did not cause much damage to coffee fields in the world’s largest production region.
According to analysts, researchers and coffee cooperatives, despite the high death toll and heavy damage to urban infrastructure, coffee fields in areas such as South of Minas and Zona da Mata were unlikely to be negatively impacted, and indeed, could benefit from the extra moisture.
Still, problems abound for rural infrastructure with the collapse of several bridges and the deterioration of roads linking farms to co-op warehouses.
There were reports of landslides wiping out thousands of coffee trees at once, but these were isolated occurrences with no statistical significance.
