BOGOTÁ, Colombia – In February, registered coffee production in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of mild washed Arabica, reached 1,025,000 60-kg bags, up 10% from the 928,000 bags registered in the same month of 2022, reports the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. After the prolonged La Niña event, the figure begins to show recovery in the harvest volume.
Year-to-date (January-February 2023) production rose 5% to almost 1.9 million bags from 1.8 million a year earlier.
In the last 12 months (March 2022-February 2023), production fell 8% to 11.2 million bags from 12.2 million a year ago.
And so far this coffee year (October 2022-February 2023), production topped 4.8 million bags, down 9% from the 5.3 million bags of the same previous period.
Colombian coffee exports fall 6% in the same month
In February, exports fell 6% to 928,000 60-kg bags of green coffee from 983,000 bags sold abroad in the same month of 2022. YTD exports reached 1.8 million bags, down 13% from the little more than 2 million bags exported in the same previous period.
In the last 12 months, exports fell 8% to almost 11.2 million bags versus the 12.1 million exported a year earlier.
And so far this coffee year, exports reached 4.6 million bags, down 13% from the 5.3 million bags exported in the same previous period.
