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The Guatemalan coffee producers seem to be in a race of challenges on the issue of coffee rust a few years ago thanks to the uncertainties on the three varieties resistant to the fungus, which spurred officials to take a stand against the replanting now.
Outbreaks of coffee leaf rust in Central America have caused even greater losses in the Guatemala production than originally thought, said the Department of Agriculture (USDA), reducing its forecast for 2013/14 at 480.000 bags for 3,42 million bags.

In the first quarter of this year, Colombia produced 2.7 million bags of 60kg. The number is 28% greater than production of the same period last year, which was 2.1 million bags, according to the National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC) amount.
The result was attributed to the renovation of coffee plantations with more resistant to diseases like rust and weather effects, with greater production potential bushes program.
The FNC also reported that coffee production in March this year was 828,000 bags of 60kg, against 617,000 bags in March 2014, an increase of 34%.