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Cash premiums for Colombian, Central American and Mexican coffee continued to rise against weaker New York arabica futures this week as a deficit of 2008-09 beans persisted in the local cash markets, traders said Thursday.
Coffee prices have been predicted to rise in 2009 on expectations of smaller supplies around the globe being that the ’09-’10 harvest is an off year. Demand seems to be inelastic: When coffee prices rise, individuals don’t tend to reduce their coffee consumption accordingly,
Honduran coffee production from the current 2008-09 harvest through March 2 was down 15% at 918,632 (60-kilogram) bags, the Honduran Coffee Institute, or Ihcafe, said Tuesday. This compares with Honduran coffee production of 1,082,333 bags from the start of the crop cycle…
Guatemalan coffee exports in February, the fifth month of the current 08-09 crop cycle, were up 0.8% at 357,020 bags of 60 kg each, the Guatemalan Coffee Association, Anacafe, said Monday. This compares with coffee exports of 354,236 bags….
THE number of coffee farmers in Kisoro district practicing organic farming has increased, a top official disclosed over the weekend. Henry Ngabirano, the head of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority, said when Urth Caffé, one of the leading coffee shops in Los Angeles California, expressed interest in buying coffee
Coffee growers in Central Highland provinces are selling their crops before they have ripened, prompting fears of quality problems. The growers are selling to small traders before the crops have ripened in fear the price will fall at harvest time as it did last…
China exportará café directamente a Estados Unidos a partir de abril, señala un acuerdo firmado entre el Grupo de Café ECUM y Yunnan Hogood Co. Ltd.. En un comunicado emitido hoy, Hogood informó que exportará 240 toneladas de granos de café al mes a Atlantic (USA) Inc., miembro del Grupo de Café ECUM
Production shortfall and crop losses because of bad weather from the ongoing 2008-09 arabica coffee harvest in Colombia, Mexico and Central America are seen reaching 3 million 60-kilogram bags, analysts and traders said Friday.
World coffee exports amounted to 7.79 million bags in January 2009, compared with 8 million in January 2008. Exports in the first 4 months of coffee year 2008/09 (Oct-08 to Jan-09) have increased by 3.6% to 30.9 million bags compared to 29.8 million bags in the same period in the last coffee year.
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Physical trading continued at a modest pace this week in the cash coffee markets of Mexico and Central America even as premiums continued to rise on the tight 2008-09 crop supply, traders said Thursday. “The market hasn’t been super busy but there has been a lot more business than one would
Vietnam Coffee Association Chairman Luong Van Tu said Friday it cut the output estimate for the 2008-09 crop year to 16 million bags of 60 kilograms each, from a forecast of 17 million bags in early December. Tu told Dow Jones Newswires that both the quality and quantity of production
BANGALORE: Hot temperatures in Brazil, world biggest coffee producer, could impact the production and prices of coffee in 2009. Initial forecasts for 2009/10 indicate a relatively low world crop, mainly as a result of a reduction in output in Brazil.
Buenos precios internacionales y una tasa de cambio al alza, hacen prever un buen año para los productores. Los exportadores miran con cuidado las buenas nuevas. La baja en la producción mundial de café, la devaluación del peso y la reducción en los costos de los insumos para este cultivo se están convirtiendo en una oportunidad de oro
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Many coffee-growing areas in the central province of Dak Lak are facing a lack of water, provincial irrigation officials warned. By mid-February, more than 170,000 hectares had been watered just once against a requirement of at least four times.
Durante el ciclo productivo 2008-2009 se esperaba una reducción normal en la cosecha cafetalera de entre 15% y 20% con respecto al período anterior, sin embargo la reducción podría llegar al 50%. El sector productivo consideró que la reducción se debe a la falta de lluvia en las zonas cafetaleras de los últimos dos meses del 2008,