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Ethiopia, Africa’s biggest coffee producer, expects a bumper harvest in 2009/10 thanks to good rains after export revenues fell 28 percent in June/July 2008/09 due to drought and the global economic slowdown.
Although the monthly average of the ICO composite indicator price increased by 4% in August, from 112.90 US cents per lb in July to 117.45 US cents per lb, daily indicator prices of the four groups ofcoffee fell during the last two weeks of August…
A área cultivada com café em todo o Brasil, conforme o terceiro levantamento de safra, é de 2.102.106 hectares. Os estados com maior representação são: Minas Gerais com 1.000.934 ha (47,62%);
Nicaragua’s coffee production and quality standards are in the upswing trend, not only because of the foreign demand for these coffees, but also due to the internal consumption demand. Cities as Managua, Leon and Granada already offer…
Vietnam’s Lam Dong province, the country’s second-biggest coffee grower, plans to almost double the land devoted to arabica by 2015 to boost farmers’ incomes. “It’ll be a waste of land if we keep growing robusta in areas that are good for arabica,…
Cuba quiere superar las 6.800 toneladas de café de la cosecha 2008-2009 mediante programa destinado a recuperar la producción para bajar la importación y aumentar las pequeñas exportaciones del grano. Así lo dijo este lunes el ministro…
Starbucks is planning on debuting their instant coffee line, called Via Ready Brew at the end of September. Starbucks instant coffee has already been on the shelves in both Seattle, as well as Illinois.
Armajaro Trading, which introduced a “voluntary premium” on the price it charges buyers of its cocoa to help increase output, will extend the plan to coffee, said Nicko Debenham, director for traceability and sustainability.
Starbucks has announced that it has begun serving 100% Fairtrade Certified and Starbucks Shared Planet verified coffee in all of its espresso-based beverages in the UK and Ireland. Starbucks Fairtrade Certified Espresso Roast…
ICE Futures U.S. arabica coffee futures closed higher and near the session high Friday. The market was boosted by technically related buying and short covering, said an analyst. Prices also closed at a technically bullish weekly high close, he said.
Vietnam’s 2009/10 coffee season starting next month should produce 400,000 tonnes, or 6.7 million bags, in the top growing province of Daklak, down 5.9 percent from the previous harvest, a provincial official said.
Brazil, the world’s largest producer of coffee, might buy smaller volume of the commodity than the previously agreed upon, encouraging producers to increase supplies and promoting a change in the government’s strategy to help growers,…
Colombia, Mexico and Central American coffee output, which fell by around 4 million 60-kg bags in the most recent harvest due to bad weather, should rebound in the 2009/10 coffee year, the executive director of the ICO said on Tuesday.
Costa Rican coffee growers will invest $135 million over the next decade to renew their trees and boosting output by a fifth at participating farms, the head of the coffee producers association said.
But, according to a Kenyan government official involved in regulating the coffee industry, much of the profits go to middlemen, millers, marketers and the co-op management, leaving the small-scale farmers with a fraction…
Vietnam’s coffee prices rose to a record $2,660 a tonne in early March, 2008, tracking gains in London’s May contract of $2,813 a tonne on March 3, 2008, the highest level for the second month since July 1995.
Colombia’s coffee production should start to return to normal around October, but will still fall to around 10.3 million 60-kilogram bags for the year, the national coffee federation said on Friday.
Coffee prices in Ethiopia, Africa’s largest grower of the beans, rose as much as 6.1 percent last week as volumes climbed 31 percent on the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange. Trading volume rose to 1,850 MT in the week ending Aug. 28 from…