Colombian coffee production rises 10% in February

The figure begins to show recovery in the harvest volume

• In the same month, exports declined 6% to 928,000 60-kg bags of green coffee from 983,000 bags sold abroad in the same month of 2022.

Bogotá, March 6, 2023 (FNC Press Office) – In February, registered coffee production in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of mild washed Arabica, reached 1,025,000 60-kg bags, up 10% from the 928,000 bags registered in the same month of 2022.

After the prolonged La Niña event, the figure begins to show recovery in the harvest volume.

Year-to-date (January-February 2023) production rose 5% to almost 1.9 million bags from 1.8 million a year earlier.

In the last 12 months (March 2022-February 2023), production fell 8% to 11.2 million bags from 12.2 million a year ago.

And so far this coffee year (October 2022-February 2023), production topped 4.8 million bags, down 9% from the 5.3 million bags of the same previous period.

Exports fall 6% in the same month

In February, exports fell 6% to 928,000 60-kg bags of green coffee from 983,000 bags sold abroad in the same month of 2022.

YTD exports reached 1.8 million bags, down 13% from the little more than 2 million bags exported in the same previous period.

In the last 12 months, exports fell 8% to almost 11.2 million bags versus the 12.1 million exported a year earlier.

And so far this coffee year, exports reached 4.6 million bags, down 13% from the 5.3 million bags exported in the same previous period.