The global coffee industry must work together," Robert Nelson addresses the 92nd annual NCA convention.(National Coffee Association)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, April, 2003

The absolute necessity of the global coffee industry working together in order to achieve realistic, viable approaches to the long-term and short-term challenges it confronts was the theme of Robert F. Nelson's address to the National Coffee Association (NCA) convention in March. Robert Nelson has been the president and c.e.o. of the NCA since 1996.

"The plain fact is that those who toil in the coffee fields don't have time. Many are suffering today. And they don't see a light at the end of the tunnel," Robert Nelson, NCA's president and c.e.o., told the group's 92nd annual meeting. "Therefore, it's more important now than ever for us to remain loyal to each other and to our common ideals, and set aside concepts that separate us, concepts where there's not...

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