Coffee producers urge minimum price for poor growers

Reuters

By Ibon Villelabeitia

CARTAGENA, Colombia, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The world's two largest coffee producers, Brazil and Colombia, Tuesday proposed setting a minimum price to allow desperate, impoverished growers to make a living.

The proposal, which was also backed by Central American producing nations, called for an urgent meeting with powerful roasters in developed countries, who they say make huge profits while millions of growers in Latin America, Africa and Asia slip deeper into poverty.

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