The crop has been collected without major setbacks despite the pandemic
- Coordinated work of the coffee institutions and with authorities has allowed maintaining production and marketing.
- Exports registered slight increase (1%) compared to July 2019.
Bogotá, August 5, 2020 (FNC Press Office) – Despite the current pandemic, registered coffee production in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of washed mild Arabica, fell slightly, 1%, in July from the previous year and grew 2% in the last 12 months.
In the seventh month of the year, registered production was 1 million 310,000 bags of 60 kg, a similar figure to the million 317,000 bags produced in July 2019; and in the last 12 months the production exceeded 14.2 million bags, up 2% from the almost 14 million bags produced in the same previous period.
So far this year, production reaches 7.5 million bags, 7% less compared to the almost 8 million bags produced between January and July 2019.
And so far this coffee year (October 2019-July 2020), production exceeds 12 million bags, 3% more than the almost 11.7 million bags produced in the same previous period.
In this second half of the year, Colombian coffee growers expect to harvest over 7.5 million 60-kg bags of green coffee (almost 55% of annual volume).
Thanks to the production volume estimated to be collected in 2020, the annual crop value would exceed COP 9 billion, a historical figure which is due not only to the peso-dollar exchange rate and the international price, but also to the high productivity that Colombian coffee farming has achieved in recent years.
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Exports increase slightly in July
With one million 133,000 bags of 60 kg, Colombian coffee exports in July registered a slight increase of 1% compared to the one million 123,000 bags exported in July 2019.
As a result of restrictions at the beginning of the pandemic, so far this year exports reached almost 6.9 million 60-kg bags, 11% less compared to the almost 7.7 million bags exported between January and July 2019.
In the last 12 months, coffee exports exceeded 12.8 million 60-kg bags, down 4% from almost 13.4 million bags exported a year earlier.
And so far this coffee year, coffee exports exceed 10.6 million bags, 6% less than the almost 11.3 million bags exported in the same previous period.
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