Colombiam coffee set to reach ‘pre-rust’ levels
“It’s been our great leap forward,” beamed Luiz Samper, a marketing director at the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC).
Samper is referring to the latest set of figures which suggest that the amount of high quality Arabica coffee that is grown in Colombia is set to rise and reach ‘pre-crisis’ levels in the not too distant future. Even better, forecasters are predicting further growth over the next couple of years.
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Colombia facing a borer outbreak
“Every day it’s getting worse,” said Pedro Echeverria.
Echeverria is coffee farmer based in the Colombian province of Antioquia and, like so many of his colleagues; he is bracing himself for an influx of insects that could potentially decimate his entire harvest.
A prolonged dry spell combined with consistently high temperatures is threatening to create the perfect environment for the coffee berry borer to prosper.
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Costa to debut Old Paradise Street No.3
For the first time since their inception in the 1970s Costa Coffee appears to be offering their customers a different type of coffee, the British press report.
When the two brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa opened up a roasting plant in Lambeth, South London, the duo set up an Italian style Mocha blend, which has become their signature taste over the past forty years.
A series of new roasts will be available in some stores from next Friday.
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Colombian coffee up, but not everything is positive
The weather has caused a number of problems for coffee growing countries as extended dry spells and the presence of drought has seen widely fluctuating coffee futures as production levels appear to rise and fall on a daily basis.
But amidst the uncertainty, coffee levels in Colombia appear to be booming at a time when most other nations are struggling due to the inclement climate.
Earlier on the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (CFC) published a report that showcased a 28% increase on production levels during the first quarter of the year when compared to the same period in 2013. This translates as an additional 600,000 bags of coffee that have been available for export.
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Colombia strikes for governmental support
Protestors in the South American country of Colombia are on the move, making their voices heard and their opinions known about the problems in the national coffee industry.
Famed the world over for its smooth coffee, Colombia has various issues which is wants to air.
And, according to estimates in the press, some 30,000 people are on the street to this end.
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Good weather news for Colombian coffee growers
Colombia has had a rough time of it over recent years, thanks to the weather in the region.
Although the Colombian coffee market is well-regarded worldwide, the country in South America has had difficulties, until relatively recently.
What was the problem?
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Colombia has skyrocketing coffee production growth
Colombia has long been applauded for its coffee output.
Once described as the ‘smoothest coffee in the world,’ Colombian coffee can certainly hold its own on the international coffee stage.
However, there have also been positive stories in the news recently about another aspect of the Colombia coffee industry – the National Federation of Coffee Growers has commented that the output has increased by a staggering 52% in June, as compared with June 2011.
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Colombian Coffee Soaks up the Sun
Colombia’s key coffee growing regions are currently enjoying sunnier weather, which is helping the plants to flower and will hopefully mean a better than anticipated harvest later this year, according to the country’s main coffee growers and exporters.
As the world’s third ranked coffee exporter, Colombia has been hit with challenging weather conditions, such as the La Nina phenomenon, bringing heavy rains and flooding and fears that this could continue driving up prices.
The sunny scenario that the country is now soaking up is far different from the “apocalyptic” situation that farmers were so anxious about, according to the director of coffee farmers in the Caldas province – Colombia’s second most important producer – contributing 12 per cent of the total coffee output.
As a result of the current sunny weather, flowering of the country’s coffee plants has been really strong, with hopes high for the second half of the year. Earlier weather predictions warned that rainfall in January could be 30-50 per cent higher than previous years in some regions. However, January has proven drier than expected. While dry weather puts stress on the coffee bushes and encourages them to blossom, some wet weather is needed to grow the fruit, once the flowering phase is complete.
And this is what makes the current climate ideal. Beans need sun eight months prior to harvest, according to coffee growers, with the present sunny conditions – interspersed with periodic showers during the evening – in perfect harmony with the plants’ requirements.
Colombian Coffee Farmers Hopeful over H2 Harvest
Whilst there has been some concern as to Columbia’s coffee output due to poor weather conditions and tree renovation, local coffee farmers have anticipated a strong harvest for the second half of the year to boost overall performance for 2010.
Expecting a total output of 10 million 60kg bags for the year, Columbia – the leading producer of high quality washed Arabica coffee, is predicting that it will be able to achieve an ambitious 6 million bags in the latter half of 2010, potentially one of the best harvests in several years.
This view has been backed through interviews with numerous coffee operators in addition to a visit to a coffee plantation in central Columbia, where farmers such as Victor Alvarez proudly showed their ripe fruit-bearing trees, soon be harvested.
Since the country’s output for the first half of 2010 was only 4 million bags, some coffee exporters and industry analysts were fearing that the second half year harvest would at best reach 5.5 million bags, however there is increasing support for the figure of 6 million bags, 9 per cent higher than originally expected.
Coffee growers’ representatives in the provinces of Quindio, Caldas, Antioquia, Risaralda and Valle del Cauca, which together account for almost two thirds of the country’s total production, have expressed their confidence in this target. With growers in these central regions harvesting their main second crop of the year during from October to December and their first between April and June, warmer weather in the more southern of the provinces may allow for an additional collection between now and the end of the year.
Colombian Coffee Output for April up by 88%
Whilst exports in April fell by 4 per cent to 528,000 sacks, down from 550,000 bags from the same period this time last year, Colombian coffee farmers have reported an 88 per cent increase in productivity last month after the country continued to recover from last year’s disappointing harvest.
Production levels rose to 647,000 sacks compared to last year’s levels of 345,000. The increase has been attributed to improved weather conditions by Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers which issued a statement via email. The Federation, reporting the boost in output, said “Colombian coffee production as started to recover lost ground”.
Colombia is positioned as the world’s second-largest producer of Arabica coffee after Brazil. According to the federation’s forecasts, coffee production will increase by over 6 per cent in the first six months of 2010.
Production in the country will hit its peak in May and June, which will see figures in the first six months rise to 4.5 million 60 kilogram sacks, up from just under 4.25 million in the same period in 2009. The federation reiterated its forecast made last month.
Overall production for 2010 is expected to reach between 10 to 11 million sacks, which is a vast improvement from the disappointing 7.8 million sacks in 2009. Last year’s harvest was a tragedy for the country which relies heavily on its coffee production industry: figures fell by some 32 per cent on average, after heavy rainfall wreaked havoc on the crop.