There are many challenges on the supply and demand of coffee from the growing of coffee to the time you get your cup of coffee. Some challenges are man made and others come from natural causes.
When it comes to coffee makers and the demand for them, there are other demands on other products before that. The demand for coffee and the demand for sale of coffee come first.
There are many big coffee companies in different parts of the world. These companies or corporations that combine a number of companies get the greatest profit. Other companies, such as Sweet Unity Farms in Tanzania, are small farms who are trying to get a fair share for there coffee. These companies now find that they must form coops in order to make a fairer price for there coffee. These challenges affect these small farms, but they also affect the price of coffee because of the amount of coffee available. Coffee, being a natural plant, is affected by the weather and diseases.
The next challenge is the processing of the coffee beans. There coffee roasting companies all over the world. Each of them wants a fair share of the business of processing and roasting the coffee beans. Large companies who sell roasted coffee roast there own beans to fit there particular bean flavors or “tastes.” Even some smaller bean companies roast there own beans. This is true with Fair trade coffee, which has been designed to assist poor coffee farmers that are producing high quality gourmet/organic coffees. It has become an important issue for coffee lovers and connoisseurs to support the local farmers. These coffee lovers and connoisseurs can do so through fair trade coffee. Otherwise many coffee growers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are forced to abandon their ways of growing coffee for cheaper methods and thus sacrifice the coffee's quality.
Other demands behind the scene are those for the spices and flavorings that are put into the coffee to make the flavors or “tastes.” The demand for fresh quality spices is also subject to weather and possible disease. Flavorings too may be subject to the fruits and other products that make up the flavors.
When coffee is more plentiful and the demand remains high for different coffees, these companies will continue to produce there best products to be part of the chain in producing all the different coffees that are on the market today.
Different coffees from different countries, blends from different countries and flavored or spiced coffees combinations create the need for coffee roasters and coffee makers of various kinds. We who are in the coffee maker business see this trend for more coffee makers for the home and for commercial purposes. As long as more people drink coffee, so will the chain of producers to coffee makers sellers see more calls for what they have to offer.
