a pound last. that kind of price slump hit smallholder farmers washed of all increasingly little coffee initiatives aim to alleviate the hardship by paying better prices and investing in sustainable development. for more on the story martin albert joins me in the studio he is the founder and c.e.o. of coffee circle it berlin based coffee roaster martin good to have you with us tell us briefly how this slump in wholesale prices came about i mean there is growing demand in india and china all over the world true but unfortunately there s also more production than actually demand and this is going back into the eighty s when especially vietnam started to produce coffee and then brazil tried to kind of counteract and they will produce more mobile human order to get more more will get more efficiencies in them to make it a bit cheaper so this year we anticipate about $2300000.00 bags which is about 137000 tons too much coffee produced so the amount is just unfortunately not