Cooxupé assesses that the 2024 coffee harvest should be higher than expected in the south and center-west of MG, Brazil

SÃO PAULO (Reuters) - The productivity of the 2024 harvest of coffee plantations in the south and center-west of Minas Gerais, the largest coffee producing state in Brazil, is expected to exceed initial projections in Cooxupé's area of operation, said the president of the main coffee cooperative Arabica coffee farmers in the country. "We are finalizing the second harvest estimate, and we can already say -- the estimate is not yet completed --, we can say that we will have a productivity above 29.5 (bags/hectare initially estimated)", said Carlos Augusto de Melo during a debate between producers promoted by the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB). The 29.5 bags per hectare initially forecast for 2024 in Cooxupé's main producing regions would be below the 29.8 bags/ha recorded in 2023, according to figures from the cooperative. But Melo indicated that the initial projection will be exceeded, explaining that data previously collected by Cooxupé was preliminary. He said that the area under ...