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Hector Perez, a small-batch coffee producer, points out damaged coffee beans near Antigua, Guatemala. The Guatemalan National Coffee Association said rust disease will destroy 15 percent of the 2012-2013 harvest and as much as 40 percent of next season’s harvest.
Coffee fungus gives key Central America industry the jitters
From Guatemala to Panama, governments are boosting aid to fight the fungus and keep workers from migrating to cities or north toward the United States. The disease wiped out as much as 25 percent of the region’s coffee crop this season.
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