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Colombia’s fight against coffee blight may show the way for stricken Central America

 

Luis Alirio Rios, 62, spreads coffee for drying at his farm, El Descanso, near Manizales, Colombia. Production at the farm had drop almost 40 percent before it was replanted with coffee varieties that are resistant to coffee-leaf rust.

As coffee-leaf rust sweeps through Central America and Mexico, Colombian farmers are just beginning to emerge from their own battle with the blight. But will the lessons they’ve learned also be useful in Central America?

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