BRAZIL – Coffee areas free of frost until the third decade

MILAN – Coffee crops in Minas Gerais are free from a new frost threat until at least June 20, said last week-end Expedito Rebello, head of research at the government’s Meteorology Institute, or Inmet adding that the strongest polar mass moved away from producing areas in the country’s southeast.

“The worst is over, at least for now,” he said in an interview from Brasilia. Rains in the Minas Gerais region helped avert damage because frost usually occurs when skies are clear, Rebello said.