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Costa Rica
09-10 Coffee Harvest Now Seen Up 7.2%
Costa Rica's coffee production in the new
2009-10 crop cycle, for which harvesting has
recently started in the lower altitudes, is
forecast to rise 7.2% to 1,706,773 bags of
60 kilogram each, the Instituto del Café de
Costa Rica (ICAFE) - official Costa Rican
Coffee Council, said earlier this week.
This compares with total production of
1,591,477 bags in the 2008-09 cycle. The
crop cycle starts Oct. 1 through Sept. 30
the following year.
The latest figure is based on the second
official estimate for the new harvest and
represents a modest upward revision of the
first forecast that called for the new
coffee production to rise 5% to 1,671,270
bags, ICAFE said.
The 2008-09 harvest, which ended down 15%
from the 2007-08 crop of 1.876 million bags,
was hit with a series of weather
complications that delayed the maturation
and picking of cherries and damaged output.
The final figure for the 2008-09 crop cycle
makes the harvest one of the smallest coffee
crops in Costa Rica's coffee history since
the 1960's, an ICAFE official told Dow Jones
Newswires.
An estimated 86% of Costa Rica's total
production is sold to the export market
based on the average over the last three
years.
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