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Considered the second largest global consumer of coffee, surpassed only by the U.S., Brazil presented in 2012 a record high coffee consumption. Very concretely, this beverage consumption per capita in the country was 6.23 kilograms of raw coffee beans or 4.98 pounds of roasted coffee, equivalent to almost 83 liters per Brazilian annually registering There was thus an increase of 2% over the previous year.


Coffee production in Colombia is expected to reach 10 million bags this year, which would represent an increase of almost 30%, compared to 7.74 million bags in 2012, reported Fedecafé, which represents the producers of the country.
In January 2013, the production of grain Colombian registered an increase of 64% over the same month last year to 877,000 bags, since the crops were able to recover from the impact of bad weather. Exports rose 34% in the month, to 725 thousand bags.
Source: Revista Cafeicultura


For the month of December, the monthly report from the International Coffee Organization (ICO) shows that there has been a slight recovery in coffee prices, driven by growing concerns about the outbreak of coffee rust in Central America.


The International Coffee Organization (ICO) said the prospect of record production in Brazil during the cycle of low productivity is offset concerns about the spread of the fungus roya, which causes rust of coffee trees in plantations Central America.


In terms of statistics, coffee exports worldwide totalled in the last month of 2012, 9.42 million bags, compared with 9.14 million in the same period of 2011. In the first quarter of the coffee year 2012/13 (October to December 2012), exports grew by 15% to 28.3 million bags compared to 24.6 million bags recorded in the same period in coffee year above. More specifically, in 2012, exports of Arabica totalled 66.53 million bags, compared with 67.04 million bags in the previous year, whereas Robusta exports amounted to 46.62 million bags, face 37.53 million for the same period.


The recovery program of the coffee crop in Kwanza-South has the collaboration of the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), developed under the project "Support to the relaunch of coffee production and agro business." The revelation was made by the head of the provincial department of the National Coffee Institute (INCA) in Kwanza-South, who stressed that the project, which began in November with six thousand farmers from Amboim, Qulienda Cassongue, has a run of 60 570 million kwanzas.


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