El Salvador: revenue from coffee exports fell 35%

The accumulated income from El Salvador's coffee exports fell 35.2% during the 2023-2024 harvest, according to figures released by the governmental Salvadoran Coffee Institute (ISC). Official data indicate that income from grain exports between October 2023 and April 2024 totaled more than 46.85 million dollars, compared to 72.34 million during the same period of the 2022-2023 harvest. The downward difference is more than 25.49 million dollars, which is equivalent to a 35.2% reduction in income from these exports. For its part, the accumulated export volume in this period also decreased by 31.4%, going from 323,081 quintals of gold-grape in the last cycle to 221,671 currently, which means a drop of 101,401 quintals. Furthermore, in the current harvest, some 44,420 jobs were generated in the coffee sector, compared to 43,930 in the previous cycle. Salvadoran coffee farming was affected by the rust fungus and the climate crisis, which led it to record, since the 2013-2014 cycle, its ...