The coffee world has been turned upside down since the Covid pandemic. Delivery delays, high coffee prices, challenges for producers, traders, and roasters. Added to this were frost and drought in Brazil – nothing is as it was just a short time ago. This podcast is intended to be a compass for everyone in the coffee industry to navigate through the coming months.
In this episode: Hans Fässler, NKG Tropical Farm Management
In this special edition of our Kaffeemacher podcast, I talk to people who analyze the current situation, clarify questions, and ask important new questions. Everyone who works with coffee in any form is already feeling the changes, or will be in just a few weeks.
Every Sunday evening we release a new episode of Coffea Economica. In this episode, I talk to Hans Fässler from Tropical Farm Management of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
Hans Fässler, NKG Tropical Farm Management
Hans Fässler and Philipp Schallberger talk about Brazil, intensive coffee production, and its cycles. Hans has been a coffee agronomist for 38 years, has managed farms, built up coffee production for Nestlé in China, and today advises and supports coffee farms worldwide. Hans analyzes the current situation in Brazil accurately and pragmatically. An intense 40 minutes with Hans Fässler, who has clear visions for the future of coffee production.
- "What do good producers have in common? That they regularly invest in their asset. They always reinvest in planting and renew regularly."
- "I personally am an advocate for optimizing, not maximizing, production based on site conditions, so that as little land as possible is needed to produce a lot of coffee."
- "even the shade tree is a competitor for the coffee plant. What are the benefits, what are the advantages and disadvantages of shade for coffee production?"
