Colombia's coffee growers, reeling from drought, brace for La Niña rains - Reuters

Jairo Ciro is just getting back on his feet after more than a third of his coffee crop withered earlier this year because of Colombia's devastating El Niño drought.

But now something even worse is on its way - torrential rains and roya leaf rust, a fungus that attacks coffee trees and prevents them from producing beans.

Ciro, a father of seven who grows coffee on the steep hillsides of Colombia's western Tolima province, fears he may again lose 30 percent of his harvest - and his income - to the rains, forecast to come into full force by year-end.

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