Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she’s raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago.

You can thank Robusta beans for that creamy, velvety finish. How does that cup of joe get into your hand? It’s a labor-intensive journey that starts with picking ripe coffee cherries. The seeds ...

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.

Growing coffee in Malaysia is proving to be lucrative for local farmers who now have a steady income thanks to Nestle. Farmer Che Nai Hassan, 57, who has for the past 11 years grown Robusta coffee ...