Coffee growers in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state are assessing the damage caused by a wildfire that devasted their crops in recent days, as the world’s largest coffee-producing country faces its worst drought in more than seven decades.

Brazil’s current drought, which is the worst in seven decades, is impacting its biggest export, coffee production, threatening to increase the cost of coffee even higher. The adverse climate conditions are resulting in the production of lower-quality coffee beans and smaller coffee harvests.

Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above-average temperatures as the country, the world’s largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades