Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which imports virtually all its oil, the know-how for building a much needed nuclear reprocessing plant 80 miles north of Tokyo. Despite Carter's concern about nuclear proliferation, Japanese officials believe it is grossly unfair for the Administration to lump Japan, which signed the nonproliferation treaty, with Brazil, which...
...prices ever for their morning caffeine-General Foods Corp., the largest U.S. coffee marketer, last week raised the wholesale price of its ground coffee by 50?, to a record $4.21 per Ib.-the coffee-growing regions of Central and South America are enjoying a new-found prosperity. Growers in Brazil, for example, were getting $2.33 per Ib. last week for prime coffee beans, four times last year's price. Brazilian officials predict that export earnings from coffee will reach $4.3 billion this year, enough to take the sting out of the country's ruinous bill for imported...
...profit is going to Latin America's already café-riche class of exporters, brokers and large plantation owners. But in some countries, coffee is also grown by peasants who farm minuscule plots. Since a frost in 1975 shriveled more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, buyers have been bidding for extra beans at prices that have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying the beans...
...rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub) still get less than $2.73 for a full day of picking coffee berries, no more than before prices rose-though some have made enough profit to retire for the rest of their lives...
...sure how long the coffee boom will last. Some savvy coffee growers in southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust...