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Protest road blockades halt Colombian coffee exports, federation says By Syndicated Content May 5, 2021 | 4:25 PM BOGOTA (Reuters) – Road blockades connected to anti-government protests in Colombia, which marked their eighth day on Wednesday, have halted shipments of top agricultural export coffee, the head of the grower’s federation said. The protests, originally called in opposition to a now-canceled tax reform plan, are now demanding the government take action to tackle poverty, police violence and inequalities in the health and education systems. Twenty-four people, mostly...

Colombia warns of nine new strains of dangerous coffee fungus By Syndicated Content Apr 29, 2021 7:28 PM BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s coffee federation has discovered nine new, more aggressive variants of the fungus that causes coffee rust, it said on Thursday, urging producers to plant more resistant coffee varieties to avoid spreading the disease. Colombia, the world’s top producer of washed arabica, has 855,000 hectares (2.1 million acres) of coffee crops, while some 500,000 families depend on the industry. Since 1983, when rust was first detected in the South American c...

Ag and food tech Demetria says it is pioneering the automated analysis of coffee bean taste using artificial intelligence and data cloud technology.

Ag and food tech Demetria says it is pioneering the automated analysis of coffee bean taste using artificial intelligence and data cloud technology.

Ag and Foodtech Startup Demetria Emerges from Stealth to Spearhead the Transformation of the Coffee Industry USA - English Pilot successfully completed with agricultural commodities merchant Volcafe/ED&F Man Developing a series of apps with the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, one of the world's largest rural cooperatives, to manage bean quality News provided by Share this article BOGOTA, Colombia and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Demetria, the first AI-powered taste and quality intelligence SaaS startup for the coffee supply chain, announced today it has emerged from s...