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Bitter market for local coffee


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The Kingdom’s once-promising home-grown coffee industry has been laid low by adverse weather and fierce global competition, with the total area under coffee cultivation cut in half over the last three years as desperate farmers switch to other crops, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.

 

“Our coffee-growing industry represents just a tiny proportion of total plantations in the agricultural sector, but has seen its size decrease by 50 to 60 per cent [in three years,]” said Khan Samban, director of the ministry’s department of industrial crops.

 

According to ministry data, coffee plantations covered 121 hectares in 2015, down from 232 hectares in 2012.

 

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