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Costa Rica 2008-09 Coffee Exports End Down
17%
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Costa Rican coffee exports in the now
completed 2008-09 crop cycle ended down 17%
at 1,318,420 bags of 60 kilograms each, the
official Costa Rican Coffee Institute, or
Icafe, said Thursday.
This compares with exports of 1,588,005 bags
in the 2007-08 crop year, which runs from
October through September, an Icafe official
told Dow Jones Newswires, releasing first
preliminary figures for the cycle.
Costa Rican coffee exports in September, the
12th and last month of the 2008-09 crop
cycle, meanwhile fell 72% to 14,942 bags,
compared with exports of 52,507 bags in the
same month last year, the Icafe official
said.
Costa Rican coffee production in the current
2008-09 harvest cycle is estimated to have
ended 15% lower at 1.595 million bags, Icafe
said earlier this year, down from output in
the last 2007-08 year of 1.876 million bags
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