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Coffee farming between extremes: NKG Fazenda da Lagoa braces itself against climate change
The frost in Brazil on July 20th made headlines around the world. There were huge losses on the plantations, and, as a result, the price of green coffee rose to a six-year high. Frost was and is not the only and biggest problem that NKG Fazenda da Lagoa in Minas Gerais and others have to cope with. Hans Faessler from NKG Tropical Farm Management and Tiago Amaral Oliveira and Patrik Avelar from Fazenda da Lagoa told us which concepts they are implementing on the farm to combat the increasing drought and extreme rainfall.
