When I search for coffee news, etc., I end up at sites that I probably never would see under ordinary circumstances. “Stuff from the Park” (Disneyland) is one such site, but the images of an oversized coffee cup designed for Disneyland that never made production was just too good to pass up.
This image is just one perspective of the cup. Visit the site to see several different views.
Posted by beanybabe at 8:10 AM PDT
Are you a coffee slave? In other words, are you the one that everyone assumes will purchase their cuppa Joe in the A.M.? A great article from the Star Phoenix (Canada) describes the plight of the coffee slave and offers some interesting psychological mini-traumas that accompany the office coffee runner and his colleagues. A solution is offered as well, but it pertains more to tea than to coffee. Nonetheless, an interesting read, especially for the coffee snots who shortchange the coffee runner and who never return the favor (although that person probably will be in denial when his role is pointed out to him).
Posted by beanybabe at 8:09 AM PDT
The India Coffee Board, a statutory body of the Union Commerce Ministry, Saturday announced a comprehensive weather insurance scheme for growers at affordable premium against crop loss due to the vagaries of monsoons.
The rainfall-linked insurance scheme, to be offered by the state-owned Agriculture Insurance Company (AIC), has been devised to protect coffee growers from deviations in weather (rainfall) resulting in lower yield within a specific area and period. It provides payout against deficit rainfall in blossom showers, backing showers and excess rainfall during the monsoons.
In the case of monsoon showers, the payout will take place if the daily rainfall is more than 25mm consecutively for seven days during the period.
Read Story: IndianMuslims.info
Posted by beanybabe at 8:02 AM PDT
I would put this news tidbit under the “Truth is stranger than…” category, but the use of coffee as a weapon has become so prevalent that it no longer seems stranger than strange. This time, a robber used a pot of coffee to stun a store clerk so that the robber could make off with cash from the store’s register.
The store surveillance video shows what happened as the man looked like he was going to pay for the coffee. After watching the surveillance tape for the first time, Steffen Yates tells 9 News, “As I’m getting ready to close the drawer, there’s some noise or something. I can see the coffee aimed at me. I did an immediate assessment and tried to turn away before it could hit me.”
The coffee hit Yates in the neck, raising blisters in what appears to be a second-degree burn. The news story is asking for help in solving this crime that occurred at a Speedway station on Glenway Ave. in Green Township, Ohio.
Read Story: WCPO 9
Posted by beanybabe at 7:49 AM PDT
As Rwandan coffee season for this year heads for harvests, dealers and partners in coffee have expressed the need to work together on increasing its quantity and quality for more revenues.
This was during a recent meeting on Friday March 16, of over 60 coffee dealers and development partners in Butare town. The meeting discussed issues related to increasing coffee production, improving the quality, washing techniques and commercialisation.
Minister of Commerce, Protais Mitari said the government is looking at how to ask all coffee growers and dealers to group them-selves into cooperatives. He said that government aims at assisting cooperatives rather than one independent person.
Read More: All Africa
Posted by beanybabe at 4:35 AM PDT
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