Ernestina Martinez shows the pale, yellow spots on leaves, a symptom of the Coffee Rust. Copyright: WFP/Hetze Tosta
Honduras: “Coffee Rust Destroyed My Farm and My Dreams”
Ernestina Martinez, a 52-year-old widow and mother of eight children, began her coffee farm a few years ago in the village Ojo de Agua in Intibucá and it produced nearly 4 Metric Tons of coffee. But the Coffee Rust plague, a fungus that affects the leaves of plants, destroyed the crops Ernestina and her children had grown with great sacrifice.
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