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Consequences for the Harvests beginning of the rains, these buds will start to bloom
or sprout. The actual damage to the 2022 crop can only
Consequences for the 2021 harvest are almost be evaluated for sure in August or September. As it
zero, as in most coffee regions the seeds are already starts to rain and temperatures increase this will indi-
fully formed and rigid, so even if the fruit suffers cate whether the affected plants will start to sprout,
damage, the chance of this seed being affected is whether or not reproductive buds will bloom.
minimal. Possible exceptions may occur in cases where In the case of no recovery, farmers will prune
there are immature fruits with high water content, but their trees, creating a direct impact on the 2022 season.
this is also not very representative of the totality of In the coming weeks, technicians from the national
harvested areas in the country now. agricultural company CONAB will most likely make
The impacts on the 2022 harvest are what may technical visits across the affected regions to begin
be of most concern to players in the coffee chain. damage assessment studies, with published data likely
Agronomists begin to estimate how much coffee will to follow in several months.
be produced in the next harvest season based on con- Ready to add or expand a beverage menu?
ditions in the previous year. In this case, the end of the With optimized programs and automatic shut-off,
rainy season in March/April 2021, before the drop in the Drink Machine Advance is an essential tool,
temperatures, will affect plant production in 2022. The
This article was first posted on Daily Coffee News, easily creating smaller batches of everything
vegetation and buds that will create flowers in 2021
Frost Hits Brazilian Coffee Lands, Extent of Damage Not
and beans in 2022 are already present in the plant. In Yet Known on July 12, 2021 and updated by from fruit smoothies to thick shakes.
September, with the increase in temperature and the Jonas Ferraresso at the end of the same month.
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