The coffee leaf rust, “one of the most devastating pests of coffee plants,” has been tentatively identified on plant samples collected on Maui from managed and wild coffee in Haiku ...

With Hawaii’s $56 million coffee industry at risk from coffee leaf rust, the state Department of Agriculture is considering the use of the fungicide Priaxor Xemium to battle the pathogen that ...

coffee growers must at times choose between high-yield hybrids or eco-friendly organic farming, weighing sustainability ...

Coffee berry disease and coffee leaf rust have been blamed for poor coffee harvests in the country.This is aggravated by poor management of the diseases by farmers, which also compromises the quality ...