NPR's Noah Adams talks with Cecilia Smith, the president of the Kona Coffee Council and a Kona coffee bean farmer, about fraudulent Kona beans that have been sold in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kona coffee sells for about $16 a pound and only 2 million beans are cultivated a year. The beans, according to Ms. Smith, must be grown in North or South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, otherwise the beans are not authentic.
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