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Decline in coffee production attributed to aging plantations

Mar 10th, 2010 | Category: Daily News

by TCRN Staff
A 35% decline in national production of coffee in the last seven crops have stimulated authorities to the sector to begin seeking solutions to the problem.
During the 2002-2003 growing season, production reached 2.92 million bushels (equivalent to as many bags of 46 kilos or pounds of processed coffee).
The current harvest of 2009-2010, which [...]



Environmental changes and investing?

Sep 19th, 2009 | Category: Daily News

In Costa Rica, coffee growers have been forced to plant at higher and higher altitudes in recent years; this fall’s crop in Columbia is expected to be down substantially due to heavy rainfall. July’s harvest was down by nearly a third compared to last year. Brazil, the world’s largest producer of coffee, is expected to [...]



Costa Rica 09-10 Coffee Crop Up 5% To 1.67M Bags

Jul 16th, 2009 | Category: Business

Costa Rica’s coffee production in the next 2009-10 crop cycle, for which harvesting won’t start until October, is forecast to rise 5% to 1,671,270 60-kilogram bags, the official Costa Rican Coffee Council, or Icafe, said Friday.
This compares to total production of 1,591,477 bags in Costa Rica’s current 2008-09 cycle.
The crop cycle starts Oct. [...]