São Paulo – Brazil should produce from 49.13 million to 51.94 million 60-kg bags of coffee this year, according to the first 2016 crop estimate released this Wednesday (20) by the National Supply Company (Conab). Considering the median of minimum and maximum projections (50.5 million bags), this might be the second largest crop ever, with the first one being 2002’s at 50.8 million bags.
Conab’s estimates represent increments of 13.6% to 20.1% over the 2015 crop, when 43.24 million bags were harvested. Coffee is a biannual plant, meaning outputs are alternately smaller and bigger each year, and 2016 is a high output year.
Planted area for coffee in Brazil is 2.25 million hectares. Yield forecasts range from 24.84 to 26.27 bags per hectare, up 10.4% to 16.8% from the prior crop.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
