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08-09 Coffee Exports Down 17% At 200,109
Bags
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Costa Rica Apr
08-09 Coffee Exports Down 17% At 200,109
Bags
By Maja Wallengren, Dow Jones
Newswires
Costa Rican coffee exports in April, the
seventh month of the current 2008-09 crop
cycle, fell 17% to 200,109 bags of 60
kilograms each, the official Costa Rican
Coffee Institute, or Icafe, said Monday.
This compares with Costa Rican exports of
240,215 bags in April last year during the
2007-08 crop cycle (October-September), an
Icafe official told Dow Jones Newswires,
releasing first preliminary figures for the
month.
Figures for total Costa Rican coffee exports
in the first seven months of the 2008-09
crop cycle from Oct. 1 through April 30
weren't immediately available.
Physical harvesting of Costa Rica's 2008-09
harvest is now nearing completion across the
country's producing regions, but output has
gone from being behind the year-ago pace by
5% at the onset of picking to down 15% by
mid-March, Icafe said last month.
Costa Rican coffee production in the current
2008-09 harvest cycle is now forecast to
drop 12% to 1.644 million bags, Icafe said
last month, from output in the last 2007-08
cycle of 1.876 million bags.
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