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Karlos Rischbieter, head of the Brazilian Coffee Institute, the government coffee board, has reportedly resigned over policy differences with his boss, Commerce and Industry Minister Roberto Gusmao, according to press reports in Rio de Janiero.
Gusmao has argued that other major Brazilian agricultural products do not need a government board to assure their success in the world market and that the coffee trade should be run by private growers and exporters.
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