Brazil chill imperils coffee, orange crops

By Ana Mano
Updated July 30 2021 - 5:55am, first published 5:50am
Arabica coffee prices have hit a nearly seven-year high as cold weather affects the crop in Brazil.
Arabica coffee prices have hit a nearly seven-year high as cold weather affects the crop in Brazil.

Temperatures have fallen in swathes of Brazil - with rare snowfall in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the country's centre-south to threaten coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frosts.

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