The wholesale price of raw coffee has been high for a long time. It has been seen on the shelves of the store. A Brazilian coffee producer tells what affects the price of coffee.
The painful price of coffee has been talked about last year. Adobe Stock/AOP
The price of coffee can come to hip records this year, too, says Brazilian coffee producer Pedro Gabarra.
“Prices will certainly continue to rise, although the final estimate is difficult to say,” he says.
According to Gabarra, the price is influenced, among other things, by the political situation in the world.
However, climate change is most influenced by coffee price and future hundreds, Gabarra says.
As a result, every growing season involves uncertainty and the future is difficult to predict. Climate change causes coldness, extended dry seasons and changes in the flowering of coffee. Poor growth conditions also increase the possibility of disease.
Last year, in Brazil, an exceptionally bad drought was suffered. In many Brazilian regions, drought was the worst since 1981.
-The last 5-6 years have been crazy due to climate change.
For example, in Finnish coffee, almost invariably used, the Arabica, is a very sensitive plant.
It needs special growth conditions to produce high quality beans.
Brazil is the largest Arabica farmer.
Pedro Gabarra is a coffee producer for a sixth generation. According to him, climate change is the biggest factor in coffee growing. Petra Sneck
Difficult to get workers
According to Gabarra, one of the challenges of the coffee rooms and also affecting the price is that there are no new employees in the industry. Coffee picking by hand harvesting during the harvest from May to August is heavy and no longer seems to be interested in young people, Gabarra says. His farm employs 70 people.
-The average age of collectors is about 60 years.
Gabarra believes that technology and mechanical picking are becoming more common in the future.
Gabarra spoke at the Kaffa Roastery event in Helsinki. Most of its coffees use beans called Gabarra Pinhal.
Coffee in the coffee room is about 446 hectares of coffee. Coffee bushes account for 35 % of the vegetation of the entire farm.