Colombian coffee production drops 13% in March to 914,000 bags

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTÁ (Reuters) - Coffee production in Colombia, the world's top supplier of washed arabica beans, dropped 13% in March to 914,000 60-kilogram bags from the same month a year ago, due to continued rains that affected flowering, informed the National Federation of Coffee Growers this Tuesday. In March 2021, the country's coffee harvest reached 1.05 million bags. The federation attributed the drop in production to "difficult weather conditions, associated with extreme rainfall, as historically March is a month of not very large harvests". Colombian coffee exports in March fell 1% to 1.12 million 60-kilogram bags from the same month a year earlier. In the first quarter of the year, Colombian coffee production ...