Coffee production fell 13% in Colombia during March due to winter season

The National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC) announced that, during March, the difficult climatic conditions in Colombia, associated with heavy rainfall, and added to the fact that during the month there are not very large crops, caused coffee production in the country to register further declines.

As detailed in its latest report by the coffee union, during March the production of green coffee was 914,000 bags weighing 60 kg, which was equivalent to 13% less than the almost 1.1 million bags produced during the same month in 2021.

The report also indicated that, so far this year, that is, between January and March, although the production of bags exceeded 2.7 million, the figure was 16% lower than the 3.2 million bags produced in the same period of time in the previous year.

Regarding the figures for the coffee year (October 2021 - March 2022), the FNC announced that although bag production exceeded 6.2 million, this was 18% lower than the almost 7.6 million produced in the same previous period.

The National Federation of Coffee Growers also warned that, during March 2022, sales of Colombian coffee abroad fell by 1%, going from 1,128,000 bags in the same month of 2021 to 1,121,000 in the third month of this year.

With this figure, according to the Federation, coffee exports so far this year have exceeded 3.1 million bags weighing 60 kg, equivalent to 10 per cent less than the nearly 3.5 million bags exported in the previous year.

Regarding the export figures for the coffee year (October 2021 - March 2022), the Federation concluded that they recorded a 10% drop compared to the previous period, going from 7.1 million bags of 60 kg of coffee exported to 6.4 million bags so far in this period.

Among other news about Colombian coffee, the National Federation of Coffee Growers also confirmed in recent days that Juan Valdez officially opened two stores in Turkey and Qatar after “hard work and with the clear objective of continuing to expand the brand internationally”.

The shops, located in Istanbul and Doha respectively, according to the coffee growers union, have the support of Colombian bariculturists, who not only were part of the process of opening the establishments, but will also be in charge of the attention of customers, as was known to W Radio.

With the opening of these two stores in Turkey and Qatar, the coffee growers' guild hopes that the brand's presence of Colombian coffee growers will be strengthened throughout the Middle East.

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