Tanzania’s benchmark coffee price advanced 11 percent at an auction on March 10 amid lower supplies, the Tanzania Coffee Board said. The average price of the top arabica AA grade rose to $327.93 per 50-kilogram (110-pound) bag, from $294.14 two weeks earlier, the board said in an e-mailed statement today. Supplies of the grade fell […]
As weather shifts, coffee farmers struggle to protect crops By MELISSA ALLISON The Seattle Times A mile above this rural mountain town, coffee trees have produced some of the world’s best arabica beans for more than a century. Now farmers are planting even higher – at nearly 7,000 feet – thanks to warmer temperatures. “We […]
Mar 10, 2011 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — (Data is for Organic non-roasted and non-decaffeinated arabica coffee, in kilograms) Origin Jan 11 Mexico Ogn 207,000 Guatmal Ogn 856,635 Salvadr Ogn 624,450 Hondura Ogn 770,418 Nicarag Ogn 489,900 C Rica Ogn 723,465 Panama Ogn 36,000 Dom Rep Ogn 3,734 Colomb Ogn 5,986,415 […]
El Salvador Coffee Exports Up 38% At 621,730 Bags Through Feb Mar 10, 2011 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Coffee exports from El Salvador for the 2010-2011 season through February totaled 621,730 bags of 60 kilograms each, up 38% from the same period last year, the country’s coffee council said […]
NAIROBI, Mar 11, 2011 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — Kenya’s coffee output is expected to rise to over 50,000 metric tons in crop year 2010-11 [October-September] from a record low 40,000 tons the previous year, Kenya Coffee Research Foundation Director Joseph Kimemia said Friday. “If we get rain before the end of March, […]
Costa Rica’s coffee production for the 2010-2011 season through March 7 was 1.52 million 60-kilogram bags, up 5% from the same period last season, the country’s coffee institute said in a report Monday. Coffee sales were 1.31 million bags, compared with 1.15 million bags in 2009-2010. Most of the coffee was sold for export with […]
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Brazil, biggest exporter of Latin America, expects its coffee crop to decline by 13%. One of the reasons for that is the biennial cycle of the low productivity of coffee plants. Nevertheless, this year Brazil expects to harvest the biggest crop for a low-productivity season. It is preliminary estimated at 42-44 million bushels. In […]
By Naomi Mapstone Published: December 30 2010 14:57 | Last updated: December 30 2010 19:01 The wettest rainy season on record has knocked expectations for the crucial Colombian coffee crop, pushing prices to 13½-year highs. The price of higher-quality Arabica coffee has risen 80 per cent since mid-June on the back of critically low inventories […]
NAIROBI, Dec 29, 2010 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — The Tanzania Coffee Research Institute, or TaCRI, has started a coffee development program to discover varieties that are higher yielding and disease-resistant, the Daily New Newspaper reported Wednesday. “It is a conventional approach of developing true coffee seeds and may require five to six […]