Devastation at Amazon Coffee Co-op Profiled by AQ

Café Apuí, a small coffee cooperative profiled in 2021 by AQ as an example of sustainable development in the Amazon, has been heavily damaged after a plane sprayed herbicide over its crops. Brazilian police are investigating whether the Feb. 8 incident was an accident or an intentional attack. Coffee leaves at co-op producers affected turned yellow following the incident, raising the prospect that the current crop will be lost, said André Luiz Vianna, technical director at Apuí’s main partner Idesam. Birds, bees and butterflies have disappeared, and fruit trees have died. The...

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