Costa Rica will harvest 1.59 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the 2008/09
season, 15.4 percent less than was produced
in the previous cycle, the national coffee
institute Icafe said.
"The forecast fell due to climatalogical
factors and because of the high cost of
fertilizer," said Denia Munoz, an Icafe
researcher.
Icafe had previously estimated that the
harvest would yield 1.757 million bags this
coffee year. Costa Rica produced 1.88
million 60-kg bags of coffee in 2007/08.
Coffee prices have been rising due to an
anticipated shortfall of around 2.5 million
bags of Colombian coffee. Central American
producers have struggled to fill the gap due
to weather problems and high labor and
fertilizer costs.
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