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Uganda’s coffee exports will probably drop 27 percent from a year earlier in May as an extended rainy season delays drying of the beans, the country’s Coffee Development Authority said.
Africa’s biggest exporter of the crop may ship 180,000 50- kilogram (110-pound) bags this month, the second-worst level this season, the authority said today by e-mail from Kampala, the capital. That compares with 247,460 in May 2011 and 141,220 bags last month, it said.
Coffee exports from El Salvador fell by 50 percent last month, according to preliminary figures from Consejo Salvadoreno del Cafe, the country’s coffee council.
Shipments declined to 149,514 quintals (114,704 60-kilogram bags) in April from 298,635 quintals in the same period a year earlier, the council said in report e-mailed yesterday.
One day in March, an SMS woke coffee grower Nguyen Van Phuc at 3am, telling him the London coffee price had just risen by 15 per cent. As soon as trading started in his commune the next morning, Phuc sold 30 tonnes of coffee at VND40.7 million per tonne, minutes before the price fell to VND39.8 million.Â
Coffee production for the smaller of two annual crops in Colombia, the world’s second-biggest grower of arabica beans, may fall 30 percent this year as rains damage trees, according to researcher F.O. Licht GmbH.
Output for the mid-crop will decline from 3.1 million bags last year, the Ratzeburg, Germany-based company wrote in a report dated today. Colombian growers usually harvest the main crop from October to December. A smaller one, known as mitaca, is normally collected from April to June. A bag of coffee weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
The International Coffee Organization restated a caution to buyers holding out for lower bean prices, despite evidence that economic woes have spoilt drinkers' appetite for coffee.
Coffee consumption in 2011 hit a record 137.9m bags, the top grower of robusta beans, the intergovernmental group said in its first forecast for the year.
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Colombia, the second-largest supplier of Arabica coffee beans, said the harvest rose 11 percent in April and may continue rising for the rest of this year.
Output rose to 580,000 bags from 523,000 bags in the year- earlier period, Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers said in a statement today. Each bag weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
Coffee plantations face a new problem after weathering a prolonged dry period. The incidence of white stem borer, a pest that attacks Arabica coffee plants, has flared up this year due to the prolonged dry period.
Growers feel the pest attack, which has resurfaced almost after four years, could possibly eat into the Arabica output for the 2012-13 crop year (October-September). However, they preferred not to hazard any guess at this point in time.
... He explained old and stunted trees as being more than 20 years old and having an annual average yield of less than 1.5 tonnes per ha.
Without replanting, output and exports would plummet, he said.
The replanting task has become easy with the Government spelling out the process for this, he said.
After cutting down the old trees, farmers need to grow other crops for at least two years before planting new trees, he said.
Overwhelmed by climate change, worried about speculation in international prices and still hurting from the effects of the crisis in 2000, coffee growers in Guatemala are trying in various ways to recover the production levels they achieved 12 years ago.
n the foothills of the Andes, in the Sierra Piura region of Peru, the problems faced by coffee farmers are clear ... "weather change", a continual topic of conversation in the area, the harvest is unpredictable. Last year, there was too little rain in the region. This year there has been a deluge: in some areas an increase of 500% on the "norm."
Colombia, the second-largest producer of Arabica coffee beans, may produce a smaller crop than last year because of heavy rainfall.
The harvest may be 7.5 million to 7.8 million bags of 60 kilograms (132 pounds) bags of beans this calendar year, said Andres Valencia, marketing chief at Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers. In 2011, the harvest fell 12 percent to 7.81 million bags, the lowest level since 1976.
Coffee stockpiles may fall to “critical” levels before the start of the next harvest in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee grower, according to the country’s National Coffee Council.
Coffee inventories in exporting countries were 17.4 million bags at the start of the 2011-12 season, the lowest on record, the London-based International Coffee Organization estimated in its February report. Stockpiles of importing nations were 22.3 million bags, it said. Brazil’s harvest usually starts in July.
Despite good harvest, Ethiopian coffee exports have continued to fall alarmingly, where shipment of the beans dropped by 38 percent during the first eight months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year, according to the Reporter.
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) eliminated the +/- 5 percent coffee price range yesterday, which was set to regulate against price fluctuation. The 5 percent range was instituted to protect coffee suppliers and exporters from fierce international coffee price volatility.
Uganda is projecting lower earnings from coffee exports despite a 3.1 per cent surge in production as the international coffee market braces for an anticipated bumper crop in Brazil.
Production in Uganda is expected to increase by another 100,000, 60-kilogramme bags to cap the season at 3.3 million bags.
Demand for robusta coffee used mostly in instant-drink mixes jumped 5 percent in the past year, spurred by emerging markets, according to Tristao Cia. de Comercio Exterior, an exporter and roaster in Brazil.
“A lot of the coffee-consumption growth we’ve seen occurred in countries where instant coffee is preferred,” Sergio Tristao, the president of the Vitoria, Espirito Santo- based company, said today during an interview at an industry conference in Charleston, South Carolina.
World coffee demand growth remains "resilient," led by emerging markets, increased consumption in producing countries, and the expanding popularity of single-cup dispensers, said Roberio Silva, the executive director of the London-based International Coffee Organization.
"From what we heard from the industry, consumption has remained resilient, especially with the emergence of the single- serve" technology, Silva said today during an interview at an industry conference in Charleston, South Carolina.
Coffee growers in Vietnam, the world’s largest producer of robusta beans, sold about 60 percent of the current season’s crop, according to Volcafe, a unit of commodities trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd.
The country's harvest will rise to a record 22.1 million bags of coffee in the 2011-12 season begun in October from 20 million bags in the prior period, the trader estimated last month. Vietnamese farmers have held back beans as they wait for better prices after robusta slid 14 percent last year in London trading on NYSE Liffe.