Run Across Congo Blog Hidden Treasures for Congo Coffee Tasters

Originally posted by Voice Of America on June 05, 2015 Nick Long GOMA-In the mid-1980's, the Democratic Republic of Congo was officially exporting up to 130,000 tons of coffee per year, but by 2012 that figure had shriveled to 8,000 tons, owing to war, coffee disease, low prices and smuggling.But international buyers of specialty, high-quality coffee started to realize they had been missing out. In 2012, the World Coffee Research Institute, after doing a survey of...The post Hidden Treasures for Congo Coffee Tasters appeared first on Run Across Congo.