The Texas A&M University Board of Regents voted Sept. 1 to create a scientific center dedicated to the advancement of research and development to improve the sustainability and quality of coffee, AgriLife reported. The Center for Coffee Research and Education will “seek to make rapid gains in research to sustain and grow the world’s coffee supply,” the source wrote.
The establishment of the Center is in response to the challenges the coffee industry is facing, including diseases, narrow genetic diversity, climate change and an increasing global demand.
“Coffee has suffered from a lack of advanced research in areas like genetics and disease resistance,” said Dr. Tim Schilling, executive director of World Coffee Research, in the article. “With the creation of the new center, one of the world’s best agricultural research institutions is adding its might to the effort to solve key issues facing one of the world’s most important crops.”
