Coffee production in Colombia, the world’s leading supplier of washed arabica, fell 7% year-on-year in April to 750,000 60-kilogram bags, the seventh consecutive month of harvest declines due to rains, it said on Wednesday (4). ) the National Federation of Coffee Growers.
In April 2021, the country’s coffee harvest reached 810,000 bags.
The federation attributed the drop in production to adverse weather conditions, associated with extreme rainfall and cloudiness that delay flowering.
Colombian coffee exports in April fell 18% to 845,000 60-kilogram bags compared with the same month a year earlier.
In the last 12 months, Colombia’s coffee harvest dropped 16% to just over 11.98 million bags, while exports dropped 10% to 11.91 million bags.
Colombia, the world’s third largest producer after Brazil and Vietnam, has the capacity to produce around 14 million bags annually.
Source: CNN Brasil
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