Fair enough（还算公道）
MAKING good coffee is not a simple business. Coffee bushes must be grown in shade—neither too much, nor too little. A hillside is best—but it mustn’t be too s______①. After three years, the bushes will start to produce bright-red coffee “cherries”, which are picked, processed to remove the
pulp1, and spread out to dry for days, ideally on concrete. They are m_______② again to separate the bean, which needs to rest, preferably for a few months. （1）Only then can it be roasted, ground and
brewed2 into the stuff that dreams are ★quelled with 280px">
In Mexico and parts of Central America, as in Colombia and Peru further south but not in Brazil, most coffee farmers are smallholders. （2）They found it especially hard to deal with the recent ★slump[2] in the coffee price. The price has since recovered: the benchmark price
applied5 to m________③ coffee now ranges from $1.11 to $1.14 per pound. That is roughly double its ★rock-bottom[3] level of August 2002.
But the v_________④ of their income makes it hard for farmers to invest to sustain their crop, says Fernando Celis of the Mexican National
Organisation6 of Coffee Growers. The
slump4 forced many small farmers to switch to other crops, or migrate to cities. Mexico’s exports of coffee are less than half of what they were six years ago.
（3）For farmers, one way out of this
dilemma7 is to decouple the price they are paid from the international commodities markets. This is the a_______⑤ of Fairtrade, a London-based organisation which
certifies8 products as “responsibly” sourced. Fairtrade determines at what price farmers make what it considers a reasonable profit. Its current calculation is that the appropriate figure is 10% above the market price
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