An article I found about coffee production in East Africa says that Tanzania coffee farmers are facing many battles in the production of coffee for the next season. A long drought is said the blame for the battles. According to, "Engineer Adolph Kumburu, director general of Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB), told The EastAfrican last week that the global climate changes which result in unreliable weather patterns, increasing cost of production and farm inputs as well as fluctuating world market prices have hit the sector"(Magomba). Unfortunatly this is going to result in the rising price of coffee, which is already at a high. This low supply of coffee is also contributed to the introduction of coffee in Russia and China markets. In 2008 the consumption of coffee didn't meet the supply. According to the article people drinked 132 million bags against the supply of only 128 million bags of coffee. To fix this problem they are planning to increase the growing regions. Tanazania is the 19th largest coffee producer of the world mostly making Arabica coffee.
I am a coffee lover, and I know the prices of coffee are outrageously high at places like Starbucks. I am not sure where Starbucks gets any of there coffee, but this could be the same problem for other coffee farmers are having. I believe prices of everything is going up all over the world, we notice this with our gas prices and groceries.
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