Mexico City, March 30 – Unusually cold weather at the height of Mexico‘s current coffee harvest has damaged “a little more” than 100,000 60-kg bags of coffee, the head of the national coffee organization Amecafe said on Tuesday. Freezing temperatures in December and January, peak picking months in Mexico‘s harvest which runs from October to […]
GUATEMALA CITY, March 24 (Reuters) – Guatemala cut its forecast for coffee production in the 2009/10 cycle to between 3.4 million and 3.6 million 60-kg bags, the head of the national grower’s group Anacafe said on Wednesday. Anacafe in February had lowered its forecast to between 3.7 million and 3.8 million bags from a previous […]
Trees will bear a traffic-light-like mixture of ripe red, yellow and unripe green cherries but few growers can afford to harvest in multiple sweeps of the fields to avoid quality problems. They say the laborers needed are scarce and costly. “It’s a very difficult situation for the farmers,” said Joaquim Goulart, an agronomist at Cooxupe, […]
GUATEMALA CITY, March 22 (Reuters) – Coffee exports from Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic fell 5.9 percent year-on-year in February to 2.40 million 60-kg bags, Guatemalan growers’ group Anacafe said on Monday. In February 2009, exports from the group of nine washed arabica producers were 2.55 million bags, said Anacafe, which […]
By David Olmos Bloomberg News A shot of espresso might give people the sensation that their hearts are racing, but in a study, drinking more coffee reduced the likelihood of being hospitalized for irregular heartbeats, researchers found. A study of 130,054 adults found that people who drank four or more cups of coffee daily had […]
Kenya Monthly Average Prices 2003 to 2009
Jan 15 – Tanzanian coffee prices spiraled upward as supply dwindled towards the end of the season amid heavy demand from exporters, traders said on Friday. The state-run Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) said 8,950 60-kg bags were offered for sale at Thursday’s auction with 7,463 bags sold. At the last auction on Jan. 7, 6,303 […]
Source: Reuters 15/01/2010 Jan 14 – The prospect of another Brazil coffee harvest dogged by rain and a meager outlook in other coffee-growing countries will add potency to Brazil’s efforts to raise prices by buying beans to restrict supplies. Brazil’s government plans to buy and store up to 10 million 60-kg bags of coffee in […]
Source: Reuters 14/01/2010 Jan 13 – Guatemala’s coffee harvest was not hurt by unusually cold weather in recent days, said the national coffee association on Wednesday, while neighboring El Salvador said its crops were also spared serious damage. Technical experts from Guatemala’s coffee organization Anacafe completed an evaluation of farms around the country and found […]