The first half of the year saw 564,000 60-kg bags of the product shipped to the region. Revenue, however, was down 11.6% to USD 86 million.
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The Coffee Run and Walk takes place on August 5, in the Santa Elisa farm, which hosts a coffee experimental center. The event will have dance presentations and serve Arab food. Registrations are open.
International sales of the product were down 12.4% year-on-year in May, the International Coffee Organization reported.
Foreign sales from Brazil were up 3% year-on-year. Soy, the primary driver of sales, accounted for 58% of total goods shipped abroad from Brazil.
The country shipped USD 343.5 million worth of coffee in April, a drop of 12% over the same month of 2017. Year-to-date, foreign sales totaled USD 1.6 billion, also a decline of 12%.
Sales of the product to the region slid in the first three months of this year.
