Latest stories about the tea and coffee industry
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The Chaparrastique volcano in eastern El Salvador has belched a column of hot ash high into the air, frightening nearby residents and prompting authorities to order evacuations in the area.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, tea-coffee, travel-health-and-safety, environmental-health, environmentally-sustainable-business, el-salvador
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A war is brewing in India between the nation's coffee and tea industries over which drink should be declared the national beverage.
While coffee's popularity is rising among the nation's growing middle class, tea has history on its side.
Topics: tea-coffee, human-interest, india, asia
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More than 2.15 million tonnes of black tea is grown throughout the world each year, after water, it's the most popular drink in the world.
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A roastery from Melbourne has taken out the prestigious Golden Eagle award, at the 2013 Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition in Port Macquarie.
Topics: tea-coffee, agribusiness, manufacturing, port-macquarie-2444
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A local tea bag has knocked a global-multinational company out of the cups at NSW Parliament House.
Topics: state-parliament, agricultural-marketing, tea-coffee, sydney-2000, murwillumbah-2484
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An Indian court has reprimanded police for arresting a man they accused of drinking tea in a "suspicious" manner at one of the country's ubiquitous roadside stalls.
Topics: offbeat, law-crime-and-justice, tea-coffee, india, asia
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Roland McLean is brewing the beans of opportunity being ground out of the continued growth of the coffee culture in Australia.
Topics: tea-coffee, business-economics-and-finance, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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The inaugural Australian International coffee awards are being held in Melbourne.
Topics: community-and-society, tea-coffee, melbourne-3000
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Dr Karl spills the beans on the world's most addictive legal substance.... coffee.
Topics: tea-coffee, science-and-technology, australia
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Coffee-obsessed America is only now developing a taste for high-quality, fresh-roasted beans.
Topics: tea-coffee, lifestyle, united-states
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The Melbourne food and wine festival is back and this year a coffee 'farm' is taking pride-of-place on the menu.
Topics: events, carnivals-and-festivals, food-and-beverage, tea-coffee, melbourne-3000, vic
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Tasmania's best barista was crowned at the state championships in Hobart.
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Look back at a Colin Campbell report for Gardening Australia in 1999, where the gardener looks at the origins of tea leaves - the camellia. Campbell has died from cancer on the Sunshine Coast aged 78.
Topics: television, tea-coffee, television-broadcasting, australia
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On tonight's episode of The Rural Quarter, wheat farmers are set to reap the benefits of extreme weather overseas, and Australian coffee growers are also expecting a bumper crop.
Topics: agricultural-crops, tea-coffee, wheat, australia
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Australian Nationals Senator John Williams says AusAID funding in Samoa is better spent planting coffee than planting trees.
Topics: tea-coffee, international-aid-and-trade, environment, samoa, australia, pacific
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Brazil, the world's biggest producer of coffee, is forecast to produce around 51 million bags from its harvest this year, five per cent higher than the 2003 peak.
Topics: tea-coffee, brazil
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A tea cup collection the State Library is putting together helps chart Queensland's social history.
Topics: tea-coffee, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, human-interest, qld
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Coffee bean price rises are threatening Australia's coffee industry, with shop owners arguing against holding a price war.
Topics: tea-coffee, food-and-beverage, australia
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The price of coffee beans has doubled in the past year.
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Armidale-based coffee-maker, Ross Patch, has won a Silver Award in the Cappuccino Class at this year's Royal Easter Show in Sydney.
Topics: tea-coffee, regional, agricultural-shows, armidale-2350
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Cafe patrons across Perth are set to continue paying more for cups of coffee due to increases in the cost of green coffee beans.
Topics: tea-coffee, food-and-beverage, perth-6000
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The frosts will soon descend on Victoria's high country and snowfalls will blanket the peaks and in the Alpine valleys some crops will lie dormant till the spring. One crop that especially likes its winter slumber is green tea and this season's crop is about to come to a close. Tea growing is a fledgling industry in Australia but a mix of Japanese expertise and Australian enterprise is brewing a beautiful brew.
Topics: tea-coffee, agricultural-crops, rural, australia, vic, melbourne-3000
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The National Parks and Wildlife Service says a range of measures will be considered to keep fruit bats away coffee crops on the North Coast.
Topics: tea-coffee, environment, pests, agricultural-crops, rural, pest-management, tweed-heads-2485, lismore-2480
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Landline features the final in Tim Lee's series of reports from East Timor. As we've seen, a range of Australian aid projects are helping rebuild the tiny nation's subsistence agricultural base which were all but destroyed by Indonesian troops and anti-independence militias a decade ago. As Tim Lee reports, when it comes to export-earning cash-crops, one of Timor's brightest prospects is organic coffee.
Topics: tea-coffee, international-aid-and-trade, agricultural-crops, rural, east-timor
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A study undertaken by Curtin University in Perth has revealed drinking green tea can reduce the risk of stroke.
Topics: stroke, health, diseases-and-disorders, tea-coffee, perth-6000, wa
