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COLOMBIAS COFFEE PRODUCTION YTD. A MIXED BAG.

Colombia’s coffee production is set to disappoint this year. Already down 4% to 4.5million bags, compared to 4.7 million bags last year, the country, in fact, on a 12-month rolling basis, is down a full 10% to 12.4 million bags compared to 12 months earlier, when they produced 13.8 million bags of some of the worlds most favourite Arabica.

Colombia: Coffee Export Volume 2017-2022

The numbers for this year’s annual production should be taken into consideration of the issues faced by the industry in May 2021, when the country’s logistics faced major disruption when roads were blocked, and farmers were unable to get their product to the ports during a time of political unrest.

Looking at the YTD numbers (January to May), which removes May 2021’s abnormality, the picture improves. Production is still down, but only by 4%, with 4,477,000 60KG bags against last year’s 4,664,000.

Comparing the same YTD period, exports actually jumped 2% to 4,927,000 60KG bags compared with 4,854,000 last year.

Colombia is the second-largest producer of Arabica and the largest of washed mild Arabica in the world. The earlier drop in production and exports, combined with the frost and environmental challenges in Brazil, have been some of the main drivers behind the high price of Arabica.

Photo source: UN Women | Flickr

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  • Nick Baskett

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    Nick Baskett is the editor in Chief at Bartalks. He holds a diploma from the Financial Times as a Non Executive Director and works as a consultant across multiple industries. Nick has owned multiple businesses, including an award-winning restaurant and coffee shop in North Macedonia.

3 thoughts on “COLOMBIAS COFFEE PRODUCTION YTD. A MIXED BAG.”

  1. Theophilus Tetteh

    It is true that Coffee Beans will do well
    Sourcing funding to rehabilitate Coffee Farms, etc, some seed funds are needed, also since it was liberalizemor privatised and to help eradicate poverty in Rural Areas , lack of seed funds where not reaching farmers and banks even understand the Coffee Trade

  2. Very difficult to find the quality of single origin estates this year and combined with drop in the pound against the dollar will make importing a challenge next year.

    1. I fear the weak pound is going to make coffee here in UK more expensive Gerald. I just stocked up on some of your Bilbao single origin from Colombia before you put prices up 🙂

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