Climate Change Threat Sends Coffee Roaster on Bean Hunt
- Key Coffee trialing 35 varieties of arabica trees on farm
- Roaster wants to boost arabica purchases from growers
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Coffee lovers beware. Climate change is threatening supplies of high-quality beans with one Japanese coffee house hunting for the perfect bean to withstand the warmer conditions.
Tokyo’s Key Coffee Inc. is testing 35 varieties of Arabica trees in Indonesia in collaboration with World Coffee Research of Oregon and the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute. About half of the varieties planted two years ago may be suitable to grow in the highlands of Sulawesi where the company runs its own farm.