The Spanish immediately recognized the commercial opportunity and began exporting the new dye—which they called “grana cochinilla”, or “powdered scarlet”; later anglicized to ...

Coffee farmers in Vietnam, the world's largest producer of robusta coffee, have sharply increased use of irrigation in the ...

and known as “grana cochinilla” in Spanish. It was much prized by the Spanish nobility, and it would go on to dye, among other garments, the British empire’s ‘Redcoat’ military uniforms ...

Amid record high prices for robusta coffee, a heatwave has led to the spread of crop pests. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The report says that the hot and dry environment has favoured the spread of pests such as cochinilla in some farms. That insect can hurt flowers and small fruits in the trees. Vietnam’s weather was ...