#coffee output

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Prices recovered in the middle of this year due to frost and drought in Brazil and COVID-19-related logistics snarls, and some farmers were able to break even for the 2020-2021 season that ended on September 30. Yet, with output still falling in Central America because of the resurgent Roya disease, making a living from farming coffee will remain a struggle. Output is just as important as price in determining profits, because it lowers costs by increasing economies of scale for inputs like seedlings, fertilizer, and pesticides. Roya first broke out in the region in 2012, and by 2014, over half of the coffee crops had been affected, before it was largely brought under control. The humidity brought by the two hurricanes of 2020, which themselves wreaked $3.3 billion worth of damage to regional economies, boosted the prevalence of the disease from low single digit percentages of coffee plants in the 2019-2020 season to 15% to 25% in 2020-2021.

‘Coffee crisis in Central America fuels record exodus north’, Reuters

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Vietnam Coffee-Output seen up, prices drop

Premiums at $20-$40/T to ICE January 2015/2016 output seen up at 29.3 mln bags – U.S. attache 2015/2016 exports to rise to 28.7 mln bags – U.S.attache By Ho Binh Minh HANOI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Trading in Vietnamese coffee has not picked up as weak global markets pulled down... Read more: Vietnam Coffee-Output seen up, prices drop

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Falling coffee price hits farmers at Vietnam

Many farmers in the northern mountainous Dien Bien Province’s Muong Ang District are pleading for help as the price of coffee has fallen sharply following a bumper crop this year. The coffee price has dropped from VND8,000 (US$0.35) to VND3,500 ($0.15) per kilogram, half the price recorded... Read more: Falling coffee price hits farmers at Vietnam

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Vietnam's coffee exports drop off

Vietnam’s coffee exports in April were equivalent to half of Brazil’s total exports, confirming the wide gap between the world’s two largest coffee exporters. The International Coffee Organisation’s (ICO) report, released at the end of May, said Vietnam shipped only 1.45... Read more: Vietnam's coffee exports drop off

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Labor shortage to limit Colombian coffee crops as beans go unpicked

As Colombia cheers a return to its biggest coffee harvest in eight years after beating off a disease epidemic, farmers are running into a potentially more serious problem: a shortage of workers to gather swelling volumes of arabica beans. Some regions have turned to town criers and loudspeaker... Read more: Labor shortage to limit Colombian coffee crops as beans go unpicked

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Coffee futures revive, as funds take profits on bearish bets

Coffee futures rallied as a scattering of modest supply concerns, from Brazil to Indonesia, prompted hedge funds to take profits on short bets – which data revealed they had increased at a record pace. Arabica coffee futures for July jumped 2.9% to 129.80 cents a pound on New York’s I... Read more: Coffee futures revive, as funds take profits on bearish bets

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Vietnam's coffee growers turn to pepper as prices soar

By Ho Binh Minh HANOI, May 29 (Reuters) – Coffee plantation owners in Vietnam, the world’s top producer of robusta beans used in blends and instant coffee, are devoting more land to pepper cultivation with prices of the spice rising eight times faster than those of coffee. Pepper... Read more: Vietnam's coffee growers turn to pepper as prices soar

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US upbeat on Vietnam coffee crop, but cautious on stocks

US officials downplayed the threat to Vietnam’s coffee harvest this year from dry weather, but were cautious on ideas of a surge in stocks, despite a fall in exports underlined separately on Tuesday by official data. Many commentators have raised concerns for coffee output in Vietnam, the... Read more: US upbeat on Vietnam coffee crop, but cautious on stocks