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Income from
Coffee Dropped
The income from coffee exports
dropped by 17% in the
year 2005, as compared to the
one in the year 2000, in spite
of the recovery of prices
experienced by the commodity in
the international market in the
last two seasons.
In the year
2000, coffee sales abroad
amounted to us$278 million, while
last year they reached us$230
million, according to the
Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER
in Spanish).
Those figures point
out to the fact that the sector
has not recovered from the
low-price crisis, which results
in a drop in production, which
led to a 34% decrease in
exports.
On the other hand, the
impact of the prices is
mitigated by the sale of coffee
in special markets, where it
commands prices which are 30
percent to 50 percent above
those at the New York Exchange.
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