Mexico grinds surplus coffee into fertilizer to ease oversupply

By JOSE ANTONIO JIMENEZ
The Associated Press
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Mexican coffee growers ground 8.4 million pounds of low-quality beans into fertilizer as part of an international effort to halt plunging coffee prices.

The 63,000 sacks of coffee destroyed Sunday came from across the country, but much of it was from the southern state of Guerrero, one of Mexico’s major coffee-growing regions. Mexico exports about 1 million sacks of coffee each year.

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