Brazil drought hits coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher

Coffee growers in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state are assessing the damage caused by a wildfire that devasted their crops in recent days, as the world’s largest coffee producing country faces its worst drought in more than seven decades.

In the municipality of Caconde, one of the state’s largest coffee producers, farmers and local residents joined forces to put out the fire that had reached around 50 farms, consuming an estimated 600…