The Kona Coffee Farmers Association, one of three major associations of Kona growers and the one most opposed to 15 percent blends, says regular citizens are signing up to join its battle.
In the newly-distributed February issue of its newsletter The Independent Voice, the association said more than 1,000 people nationwide signed an online petition in just three days after it was posted.
The petition asks for support of House Bill 72 and Senate Bill 661 in the current session of the Hawaii Legislature, which raise the minimum allowable level of Kona coffee in Kona blends from 15 percent to 75 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Three coffee growers unions said that they have succeeded in boosting export and earning better income seizing the favourable atmosphere created by the government. Managers of Sidama, Yirgacheffe and Oromia coffee farmers unions said the efforts of the government to enhance the growth of coffee industry has enabled them to produce quality coffee that compete in the international market. Read More at All Africa >>>
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Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh has said the Centre intended to launch a Rs 800 crore special purpose coffee fund for replanting and rejuvenation in 80,000 hectares over the next ten years. This fund is on the lines of the one unveiled in June last year for tea plantations.
Ramesh said the Coffee Board had just submitted him a report prepared by SBI Caps in this regard. The report envisages contribution of Rs 400 crore each from the central government and the coffee industry to take up this ambitious programme. The government intended to float a special purpose vehicle to carry out the programme, expected to be taken up in the next few months.
“This is the most important intervention the government wants to do in the coffee industry in enhancing production and dealing with replantations,” Ramesh said.
On coffee production in the country, he said the Indian coffee industry made a turnaround in 2006 after five “tough years” with an estimated production in the region of 2.78-2.88 lakh tonnes, highest in the last five years.
He said the average price realisation last year was Rs 78,000 per tonne, a record of sorts in the last seven years.
Source: NDTV Profit
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Consumers can now make purchases with MasterCard RFID-enabled PayPass credit or debit cards at select Tully’s Coffee retail locations. The company says its 90 corporate-owned stores will all accept PayPass by the end of the first quarter of 2007. Tully’s is installing RFID interrogators to read the cards and forward the card data to Tully’s point-of-sale system. The Northwest coffee brewer says it is accepting PayPass to provide added convenience for its customers, who can now pay for purchases by swiping the card over a reader. What’s more, PayPass purchases under $25 do not require a customer signature. Tully’s will also continue to accept traditional magnetic-stripe payment cards.
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If you live in Seattle, Washington, you might end up with free coffee for a year if you help to catch a real-life thief. The owner of Perfetto Espresso on 244th Street Southwest in Mountlake Terrace is offering one year of free coffee to anyone who can help catch the thief behind a recent robbery. This is one of a series of recent coffee shop robberies, and the culprit is a slippery devil. A coffee stand in Auburn was robbed last September, and another in Crown Hill was hit earlier this month. Read more at KOMO-TV.
An SUV slammed into a Penfield coffee shop, coming within inches of some customers. It happened Friday night at Earthtones Cafe on Bay Road. Monroe County, New York, Sheriff’s officials say a woman in her 60’s stepped on the gas instead of her brakes and crashed into the shop. Short story, but you can verify it at News 10.
If you throw anything at anyone in Virginia, you’re in felonious trouble. Just ask Jessica Hall, 25, of Jacksonville, N.C., who was charged and convicted by a Stafford County jury of maliciously throwing a “McMissile” into an occupied vehicle as she tried to get her pregnant sister to a hospital last July. The supersized McDonald’s cup didn’t hurt anyone, as it landed on the dashboard and windshield of the car occupied by Pete Ballin, 36, and girlfriend Eliza Fowle, 28. But, even Fowle is upset about Hall’s two-year jail sentence in this case. “I think that this is way too much of a punishment for her actions. This is just to me absolutely ridiculous,” Fowle stated. Read the full story at the Washington Post.
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