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

Published 2022년 4월 5일

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Colombia's coffee production in March dropped by 13% to 914,000 60-kilogram bags due to continued rains that affected flowering, as reported by the National Federation of Coffee Growers. The drop in production was attributed to difficult weather conditions caused by extreme rainfall. Colombian coffee exports in March also fell by 1% to 1.12 million 60-kilogram bags. In the first quarter of the year, Colombian coffee production and exports both dropped by 16% and 10% respectively compared to the same period last year. Over the past 12 months, Colombia's coffee crop dropped by 16% to just over 12 million bags, and exports dropped by 6% to 12.1 million bags.

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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 ...

Source: Mixvale