Output - Coffee output may drop this year in Brazil, the world's biggest grower and exporter, and Colombia's largest coffee-growing province because of bad weather and a lower yielding crop cycle.
Brazil's production may drop as much as 21 per cent as trees produce less after record yields in 2010, crop research firm Safras & Mercado said. Output in Colombia's Antioquia province may decline without dry weather in the next few weeks, said Luis Fernando Botero, the regional executive director at Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers.
"If it starts to rain again, we'd have to say the volume will be very low," Botero, 55, said in an interview from Medellin. "The damage to the first half is done."
Rainfall across Antioquia late last year hindered plants from flowering. High humidity has also aided growth of a fungus that attacks plants' leaves and reduces yields.
(Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Brazil+faces+coffee+yields/4153802/story.html)
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