Coffee Exports Up 41%
Costa Rican coffee
exports in December, the
third month of the new
2008-09 crop cycle, rose
41% to 88,966 bags of 60
kilograms each, the
official Costa Rican
Coffee Institute, or
Icafe, said Monday.
This compares to Costa
Rican exports of 63,316
bags in December 2007
during the 2007-08 crop
cycle
(October-September), an
Icafe said, citing first
preliminary figures for
the month.
Total Costa Rican coffee
exports in the first
three months of the
2008-09 crop cycle from
Oct. 1 through Dec. 31,
meanwhile, were up 25%
to 204,663 bags from
exports of 163,337 bags
in the October-December
period of the 2007-08
year.
Physical harvesting of
Costa Rica's 2008-09
harvest is now underway
across most of the
country's producing
regions and is expected
to start in earnest this
month in most of the
country's key producing
high-altitude areas.
Coffee from the new crop
normally doesn't start
reaching the market
until December and
exports shipped in the
first few months of the
new cycle traditionally
consist almost
exclusively of
previous-crop beans. |
