Tanzania arabica coffee prices rise on export demand

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s arabica coffee prices rose at auction last week on the back of higher New York markets, the regulator Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) said on Tuesday.
    Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-largest coffee producer after Ethiopia, Uganda and Ivory Coast, p...

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India: Coffee exports dip 1.7% in 2013-14 crop year

Coffee exports declined by 1.7% to 294,011 tonnes for the coffee crop year ended September 2014 compared to 298,951 tonnes in the previous year. The coffee crop year is between October and September and crop harvesting begins in November and goes up to March.
On a financial year basis, exports...

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Tanzania arabica coffee prices edge up on strong demand

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – The average price of arabica coffee in Tanzania rose at auction on strong demand, the coffee board said on Wednesday, but no robusta coffee was sold at the auction after growers rejected the low bids on offer.

    Ranked Africa’s fourth-largest coffee p...

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Tanzania arabica coffee prices rise, robusta down

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Average arabica coffee prices in Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-largest producer, edged higher at auction after prices rose in the New York coffee market, the country’s coffee board said on Tuesday.
Prices of the robusta variety of beans fell at the same...

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Cameroon cocoa exports rise to 6,666 T in August

ABIDJAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Cameroon exported 6,666 tonnes of cocoa beans in August, the first month of the 2014/15 season, up from 6,252 tonnes in the same period the previous season, according to National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB) data.
The amount is also greater than the 5,472...

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Global coffee prices set to soar as supply declines

Coffee prices are set to rise further, as the crop year 2014-15 stares at asupply deficit in the global market. Prices, ruling at 190-200 cents per lb (pound), are poised to move up to 220-230 cents per lb by December.
“Drought in Brazil at the beginning of the crop year  will result in global su...

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Tanzania arabica coffee prices rise, tracking New York market

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s arabica coffee prices rose at auction last week, tracking higher New York markets as demand increased, the regulator Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) said on Tuesday.
    Prices of robusta coffee beans fell at the second auction of the season, but all t...

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India: Coffee output likely to jump over 13 per cent this year, says Coffee Board

KOCHI: The Coffee Board estimates India’s 2014-15 coffee production at 3,44,750 tonnes, an increase of 13% over the final estimate for last year. Based on the board’s post-blossom forecast, this year is expected to be better for robusta than last year when the crop had suffered due to...

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India: Coffee Board finds a way to tackle arabica stem borer

KOCHI: Coffee Board has achieved a breakthrough in its research to combat white stem borer attack, which has become the single largest threat to the survival of arabica coffee cultivation in India. Management of this devastating pest has been increasingly difficult due to the vagaries of Nature a...

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