Sales of fine coffee have a low in Latin America

Nine countries of Latin America registered a drop of 6.13% in the first six months of the 2013-2014 harvest compared with the last production in the same period.

The National Coffee Association of Guatemala (Anacafe for its Spanish acronym) said that exportations from Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru and Dominican Republic totaled 15’347.367 bags of 60 kilos between last October and April.

According to Anacafe, of nine countries, only Colombia registered an increase of 33.99% in its exports. Peru showed an increase of 8.35% .

In the rest of the countries sales fell down and Mexico was the most affected with a decline of 66.38%.

Anacafe does not specifies the causes of the decline in exports. However, in Central America it was expected a reduction on the crops due to the rust plague, which affected more than 70% of the plantations.