Rising demand: A worker prepares to roast robusta coffee beans in Indonesia. The price of Indonesian robusta coffee beans rose about 40% in June from a year earlier. — AFP
New York: The world’s growing love for instant coffee is keeping roasters reliant on the robusta variety once snubbed by java snobs, even as prices reach the highest in about half a century.
Consumers are enjoying instant and grab-and-go drinks more than ever, and global soluble-coffee consumption is on track to hit a record high this year.
