41. The national refugee commission will help the families reestablish themselves in Guatemala, setting up housing for them at a coffee plantation near Guanagazapa, south of the capital. 42. The militias are especially powerful near coffee plantations, owned by business interests held by senior Indonesian military officers. 43. The worst drought in the region in half a century hit earlier that year, devastating coffee plantations and forests. 44. Verdant tea and coffee plantations still drape the rolling mountains, but fighting has driven many people from their fields into camps for the displaced. 45. Haitian coffee plantations, which produce an excellent arabica, are suffering from deforestation. 46. A few soldiers loll in the roads, but the surrounding coffee plantations and corn fields are devoid of any signs of human life. 47. But relief workers in camps around Goma attacked the airdrops for their prohibitive cost and said some of the crates had smashed down into cornfields and a coffee plantation. 48. Coffee plantations have also been hit by the rains, but the harvest is not expected to be affected. 49. Dealers were still troubled by the prospect of frosts hitting the Brazilian coffee plantations. 50. The report said that he believed some coffee plantations in the upland regions were surviving the dry season better than those in lowland regions. |