{"id":7549,"date":"2020-01-17T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:48","slug":"climate-change-casts-shadow-on-coffee-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/17\/climate-change-casts-shadow-on-coffee-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Casts Shadow On Coffee Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Business Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production of coffee in the Mount Kenya region has\ndrastically changed due to unpredictable weather patterns that have altered the\ncycle of the crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers have been grappling with extremely dry weather\nand continuous rainfall, which adversely affect the flowering of the coffee\nplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flowering occurs when the coffee plant has undergone\nwater stress for a couple of months, which should be followed by rainfall for\nit to produce coffee optimally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the coffee plant has experienced too much rain since\nthe beginning of the picking season, meaning the flowering process will be late\nthus delayed picking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers were supposed to have finished picking their coffee last month but a majority are still harvesting this month, a phenomenon that has not been witnessed before. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/counties\/Climate-change-casts-shadow-on-coffee-farming\/4003142-5420914-18wt8yz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Production of coffee in the Mount Kenya region has drastically changed due to unpredictable weather patterns that have altered the cycle of the crop. Farmers have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}