Brazil Hail May Have Ruined 60,000 Bags of Coffee, Somar Says
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Hail in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state last week may have ruined 60,000 bags of coffee, or less than 1 percent of this year’s harvest, according to Marco Antonio dos Santos, an agronomist at the Sao Paulo-based Somar Meteorologia.
About 2,400 hectares (5,930 acres) of coffee plantations were affected in Nova Rezende in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil’s largest coffee-producing region, Santos said in a report yesterday.