Coffee production and exports continue growing
- Coffee exports grew 21% compared to the same month a year earlier.
Bogotá, April 8, 2021 (FNC Press Office) – Registered production of coffee in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of mild washed Arabica, was one million 50,000 bags (60-kg) in March, up 30% from the 806,000 bags produced in the same month of 2020.
So far this year (January-March), the coffee crop exceeds 3.2 million bags, up 13% from the almost 2.9 million produced a year earlier.
So far this coffee year (October 2020-March 2021), production was almost 7.6 million bags, 2% more than the 7.4 million produced a year earlier. And in the last 12 months (April 2020-March 2021), production reached 14.3 million bags, almost the same production of the same previous period.
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Exports grow in line with production
Colombian coffee exports in March exceeded 1.1 million 60-kg bags, up 21% from the 948,000 bags exported in March 2020.
In the first quarter of this year (January-March), the coffee crop sold abroad reached 3.5 million bags, 13% more than the 3.1 million bags exported in the same period of the previous year.
In the coffee year (October 2020-March 2021), exports exceeded 7.1 million bags, up 4% from almost 6.9 million bags exported a year earlier. And in the last 12 months (April 2020-March 2021), exports fell 2% to 12.9 million 60-kg bags from 13.2 million bags exported a year earlier.
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