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As global bean prices surge, coffee planters in Johor are on a caffeine rush
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Mr Jason Liew, owner of My Liberica, inspecting coffee cherries in his farm in Simpang Renggam, Johor.
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BATU PAHAT – Record-high prices of wholesale coffee beans may bring frowns to latte lovers around the world, but small coffee farms in Johor are in a sweet spot.
Johor farmers who own small plots of land – farms known as smallholdings – have in recent years been chopping down some of their oil palm trees and cultivating coffee, coconut and other fruits instead, said Mr Esham Salam.
