El Salvador coffee report, migration and farm abandonment on the rise

Coffee production in El Salvador is estimated to reach approximately 555,000 60-kilo bags in market year 2023/24, a decline of more than 100,000 bags from the previous estimates. The country’s coffee sector continues to be affected by climate change, a lack of labor in rural areas due to migration, aging coffee trees and sustained high costs for farm inputs such as fertilizers. These and other issues are outlined in the new USDA Foreign Agriculture Service annual report on the Salvadoran coffee sector. [Note: This is part of a series of stories that will ...