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Coffee production in Colombia in 2015 should be between 12.5 million and 13 million bags of 60 kilos, an increase over the previous year, with favourable weather, the incorporation of new coffee plantations to the industrial park and increased productivity said the manager of the National Coffee Growers Federation on Thursday.

Coffee production in Honduras, the main producer of Central America, should reach 5 million 60-kg bags in 2014/15 (October 2014 to September 2015) season, which corresponds to an increase of 8.7% compared with the current season 2013/14 m estimated 4.6 million bags. The survey report is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Brazil will have in season 2014/15 the smallest in coffee crop five years, due to the effect of drought and extremely hot weather early in the year, pointed out on Friday a study released by the National Coffee Council (CNC).
The coffee harvest in Brazil 14/15 will drop to a range from 40,1 millions to 43,3 millions bags of 60 kg against 49.15 million bags in the previous season.

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%.

The season 2014/15 coffee Brazil should fall well below expectations as a result of intense stress and a pruning of large trees after two consecutive harvests the world's largest producer, said on Monday the Swiss Volcafe , division coffee trading ED&FMan
The trading company lowered its production forecast to 51 million 60-kg bags, compared to 60 million bags provided in November, a review of expectation which puts them closer to those numbers that can be achieved, according to representatives of producers in Brazil polled by Reuters.

The coffee harvest this year is expected to reach 49.15 million bags of 60 kilos in Brazil. The projection was released on Friday (20/12) by the National Supply Company (Conab). The fourth harvest estimate of the product indicated a reduction of 3.3 % compared to the previous cycle.

The low price of the bag of coffee on the international market was the main topic discussed in the regional assemblies developed by the National Association of Coffee Growers of Honduras (Anacafeh).
One of the measures is to reduce costs to the maximum, whereas the current decline in prices is more serious than the rust fungus that attacks crops, said the president of Anacafeh, Jorge Lanza.

The production of Arabica coffee in Kenya is expected to grow 15.4% in season 2013/14 started in October, to 45 000 tonnes, designed this Wednesday the manager of the Board of coffee country, Enosh Akuma. In the previous cycle, the African nation produced 39 000 tonnes of product.

Produce one ton of coffee in Colombia costs more than $ 2,700, said the director of the called Mission for Competitiveness of the Coffee Sector, Juan Jose Echavarria. However, a ton of mild coffees are produced on average U.S.$ 1,450 in Latin America and $ 1,400 in the rest of the world.
The mission, which ended last week, will deliver the results on the 12th of February and not during the sessions of the Congress of coffee later this month, as indicated by the President of Colombia for almost a year.

Experts from Ivory Coast will help Cameroon to increase coffee production by planting hybrid species, said the independent newspaper Le Messager on Thursday, 19. "Our goal is to double or even triple our production of Robusta and Arabica by 2015", said the Executive Secretary of the Council of Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Cameroon, Omer Gatien Maledi, after a meeting with the Ivorian ambassador in Cameroon Adama Dosso, according to the publication.