According to the 03Oct2017 Gleaner, there may be more Blue Mountain around - not good for the farmers...
Quotation from the Gleaner (free content from their webpage) follows: (post edited to include the not free - copyrighted content link to the Gleaner)
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...mountain-beans
A major crisis is looming in Jamaica's coffee industry as traders in Japan, which is the main market for the island's premium brand Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, have refused to enter into new contracts with local producers.
This was revealed today by Agriculture and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda at a press conference at his ministry's office in New Kingston.
According to Samuda, Japanese coffee traders have out rightly refused to pay more than US$40 per kilogramme for Blue Mountain coffee and have rejected attempts to renegotiate contracts that would see them paying more for the premium brand Jamaican coffee.
The US$40 per kilogramme is less than the US$60 that the Japanese have been paying in the last two years.
Originally Posted by Odinson
