From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazil will harvest 32.46 million bags of coffee in the 2005/2006 crop. The volume represents a reduction in 16.1% in relation to the last harvest, which resulted in 38.6 million bags. The drop should happen due to the characteristics of the crop, especially of the arabica coffee, where every year the production cycle causes variations in the total produced.
For the robusta coffee, forecasts indicate an increase in 21.7%, going from to 7.5 million bags in 2004/2005 to 9.2 million bags in the current crop. The information is from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply communications advisory.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
