Robusta Coffee Maintains its Market Share
“GUARAJUBA, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Robusta, a lower grade coffee used in instant and soluble products, is holding firmly to its market share, said Nestor Osorio from the International Coffee Organization, despite growing consumer interest in high quality brews made with top notch arabicas.
About 40 percent of the world’s coffee supply is robusta, a less expensive and often easier species of coffee tree to grow. The remaining 60 percent is arabica which is increasingly cultivated as a specialty or gourmet coffee.”
Read the full Forbes.com article, “Robusta thrives amid quality coffee trend,” posted 11/23/09.
