SAO PAULO: Brazil coffee areas are seeing early flowering in the fields, experts said on Wednesday, while concerns about beans' quality increase, due to unusually high moisture in producing areas, an undesirable anomaly associated with the El Nino weather event.
Coffee harvest in Brazil, the world's largest producer and exporter, happens in winter time in the Southern Hemisphere, a usually dry period, which favors field work and drying of the beans before bagging and shipping.
