Farmers in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa are trying to popularize homegrown coffee while the country mostly depends on imports for its coffee...
COLLEGE PARK, MD. U.S. – During July, ENSO-neutral continued, as equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were near average across most of the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The latest weekly Niño SST index values were close to zero in ...
PORTLAND, U.S. – US wine industry folks talk about terroir a lot. A core concept in how we view wine in the 21st century, terroir is the idea that soil, climate, and topography all give a wine a distinctive characteristic that it wouldn’t have if the grapes were grown elsewhere.
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, U.S. – ENSO-neutral conditions continued during March, with near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central equatorial Pacific and above-average SSTs in the eastern Pacific. The latest weekly Niño index values were near zero in the Niño-4 and Niño-3.4 regions, and +0.8 and +0.9°C farther east ...
BANGALORE, India – Coffee Board has anticipated a sharp dip in the overall production of coffee in the year 2016-17 as the Western Ghats witnessed erratic rains in February and March. Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Industry Minister informed in a written reply to Parliament that changing climatic conditions, especially unpredicted rainfall ...