Year-to-date through May saw 730,000 bags shipped to that part of the world, up 52% year-on-year. Sales soared last month.
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In Abu Dhabi and Dubai, cafés roast and sell specialty coffees, Arab-style or otherwise. In the latter city, there’s even an entire museum devoted to the product.
Overview of the world coffee production and consumption presented at the Coffee Summit on Wednesday shows that the Chinese market is promising for producers. Brazilian exports to the Arab countries grow above average.
Forecast is a crop of 51 million bags according to CONAB. Reduction is due to the two-year period for coffee farming.
Sales to the Arab countries reached 554,600 bags year through April. Revenue grew 8% to USD 66.2 million, according to Cecafé.
Last month saw USD 7.25 billion worth of products shipped from Brazil.
The first two months of the year saw 281,600 60-kg bags shipped from Brazil to the region, with revenues climbing 8% to USD 33.7 million.
A total of 3.28 million bags were shipped in January, generating a USD 439 million revenue.
ALM Brazil Trading Company sells typical Brazilian products to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In the end of the month, they will launch a halal brand for the Arab market.
Project Arab Coffee Memories gives voice to immigrants who chose to live in Brazil and talk about the rites involving the drink.
Fazedores de Café offers a free course teaching from the production to the café business in Brazil and receives its first class of immigrant students. A Syrian musician is among them.
Last year saw 1.68 million bags of the product shipped to the region. Lebanon is the leading buyer in the bloc, but Syria came as a surprise as it placed second.
This year should see 59.6 million 60-kg bags harvested, as per a November survey from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Last month saw 3.68 million bags shipped from Brazil. Revenues slid by 1% to USD 485 million. Year-to-date, the volume shipped to Arab countries was up 15%.
