The news section is presented with a photo report on the Coffee Tea Cacao Russian Expo (CTCRE) business exhibition and conference, which for the 9th time brought together professionals from the coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate and HoReCa segment in Moscow at the MainStage site. It gives a general idea of how more than 7 thousand industry representatives met, talked, took part in the business program, tastings and championships, and about 130 exhibitors presented their products, novelties and achievements to the business audience.
In the Russian Roasters section, you can get acquainted with a young coffee roasting project that has been operating on the Moscow market since 2021.
Enthusiasts practicing in these areas share their opinion on the current state of affairs in the production of northernmost tea and how long it will take for the domestic segment of bean-to-bar chocolate to adapt to new economic realities.
In an interview dedicated to such a traditional Russian drink as an infusion of willow tea, the chairman of the Association "Union of Ivan Tea Producers" shares his vision of the prospects for the development of industrial production of this product with KICh readers.
The review of the issue is devoted to a detailed description of the cultivation of coffee in Colombia, the country of Juan Valdez, supplemented by comments from local members of farmers' associations.
In the “Retrospective” section you will find an amazingly deep and visionary interview about tea, coffee and the fate of civilization by a well-known Russian author of scientific papers on international relations, political science, economics, philosophy of history, first published in KICH in 1999. Much of what was said 23 years ago turned out to be incredibly relevant today.