Café Salvador : la récolte en baisse de 9,4%
Envoyé le 31 mars , 2009
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DJ El Salvador ’08-’09 Coffee Harvest Down 9.4% To 1.42M Bags
Coffee production in El Salvador’s 2008-09 harvest to March 1 was down 9.4% to reach 1,418,333 60-kilogram bags, the Salvadoran Coffee Council said Thursday. This compares to total registered production of 1,565,533 bags from the beginning of the harvest cycle Oct. 1 to Mar. 1 in the last 2007-08 crop cycle, the council said in a report, a copy of which was obtained by Dow Jones Newswires.
The drop in registered production to date confirms reports by trade and exporters that the harvest is coming in late after a combination of heavy un-seasonal rains, strong winds and frost delayed the maturation of beans.
Total registered coffee production in El Salvador in harvest week 18 from Feb. 23-Mar. 1, meanwhile, was down 3.6% to 18,879 bags, from production of 19,586 bags in harvest week 18 in the 2007-08 crop cycle, the council said.
The failure of the harvest to produce a more speedy recovery from the slow start last month led the council to cut its forecast for production in the 2008-09 harvest for the second time this year, and the crop is now seen yielding 1.392 million bags of green, fully-processed coffee.
The figures are based on milled and processed parchment coffee registered at the country’s mills which normally are subject to a post-processing loss of about 5% when converting this coffee to green coffee as shipped for exports.
Source : MarketWatch
