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The coffee will increase their shares parafiscal

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The coffee and rice shall increase their shares parafiscal, clappers and hog farmers already proposed, would arise for the flowers.
With increases in the fiscal contributions of coffee, rice, palm, hog and probably growers, producers in the field assume a more prominent role in funding programs that strengthen these sectors, so as to reduce the rate at involving the state.

Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo, said that the tax reform bill to be filed in Congress include amendments to the quasi-fiscal contributions of coffee and rice. Likewise, the Government is discussing with the unions parafiscality of oil palm and the pig.
The message on a best effort of producers and less dependent on state resources they began to send President Juan Manuel Santos and the Minister of Agriculture in the congresses of coffee and rice last December.
For the coffee they proposed to adjust the contribution and institutional re-engineering of the guild, to make it more sustainable way, the minister Restrepo were charged 59,000 pesos owed by the program refinanced Pran (debt relief).
The President reminded that for every four dollars that reverses the coffee trade organization, there are three contributions from the Government. The amount of the contributions of 2011 was 310,000 million pesos, which was spent in areas such as Rural Capitalization Incentive (ICR) for Permanency program beneficiaries, Sustainability and Future, the extension service, the support for those affected by the winter Cenicafé research, and incentives to farmers' cooperatives, among others. Santos concluded, "clearly is a situation difficult to sustain over time, making it necessary to be more effective and seek greater leverage for different programs."
The contribution is the quasi-fiscal sector, which will pay six cents per pound of coffee exported. In the guild, the issue will be on the agenda this year, it was referred to in Prosperity Coffee Agreement, signed in August 2010 and is expected to become very tight fit to the international grain prices.

Prepare plan to rescue the Colombian coffee in the coming years

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The aim is that the moves to produce 14 million bags in 2014.
The future of the national coffee industry is in the hands of producers. And it only if hosting at exactly the plan to renovate 120 000 hectares per year, structured by sector authorities, Colombians may retain the label of coffee.
The strategy to knock down the old coffee trees and replaced them with more productive varieties and renewed raises the goal to jump from 8.3 million bags produced today, 14 million in 2014.
For now, official figures indicate that production this year will be about 8.3 million bags of 60 kilos, while in 2010 were 8.9 million. Meanwhile, grain exports stagnated. In the past two years were 7.8 million bags, ie no growth.
However, the accounts show of hands to be optimistic about recovery. In the next three years will enter production phase 450,000 hectares have been renewed since 2008, which, by themselves, would yield an annual harvest of more than 10 million bags.
The reason: the new variety grown in the country, regional castle, produces 17 percent more grain than traditional caturra that until recently dominated the national coffee. Estimates of the Federation of Coffee Growers indicate that this year the area sown will 1'100 .000 hectares, 914,000 as at present, will add 200,000 more or new areas are being planted. The first 30,000 and are planted.
However, it is only necessary to have ready the new crops. It also requires at least 5,000 coffee trees planted per hectare (there are areas with room for 10,000), with a proper fertilization program.
A little coffee and good prices
Although the challenge to produce more complex sounds, the reality is that with what. In recent years the growers have been favored by good international grain prices. In January 2009 a pound was worth $ 1.30 Colombian mild, while in 2010 closed at $ 2.69. Moreover, in May this year achieved the highest in its history, $ 3.32. Today, the world market to domestic grain pays $ 2.60 a pound, but it's still a good price.
In parallel with the behavior of the prices recorded in the country the winter rust and acted as their own: cripple production and hence exports, which this year will close on 8 million bags, in 2010 were 7 , 8 million.
Prices and shortages
There 'rearrangement' of the mixtures
"So substantial, today, the percentage in the blends of coffee range from 10 to 40 percent, therefore, the Colombian beans has become part of the mixtures, and is justified on the grounds that the coffee consumed 'has something' in Colombia, but most are a mix, "said Germain Meneses, head of Brooklyn toaster shopping Roasting Company, based in New York.
In northern Europe the situation is more favorable for Colombian coffee, then do not seek 'the bulk' of Colombian exports, but more exclusive products. "We feel that shortage, reflected in high prices, but are our specialty coffee shop, that is, the best quality," he said from Oslo (Norway), Robert William, head of shopping Kaffa Roastery toaster.
The spokesman stressed that this company, whether with high prices, will continue to purchase, directly, specialty coffees (valued for their high quality) to the Colombian coffee growers.

Coffee production falls on October 19%

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Coffee production in Colombia dropped 19% to 656,000 bags of 60 kilos in October, compared to same month of 2010 when they totaled 807.00 sacks, as a result of heavy rains that occur in the country.
The weather has decimated the Colombian coffee industry, as production and exports of grain have not rebounded, despite expectations that the National Federation of Coffee Growers gave earlier this year. Now, so far this year, production dropped eight percent, adding 000 sacks 6'229, 551,000 less than the same period last year when they totaled 000 sacks 6'780.
"Despite significant advances in coffee renewal programs, excessive rains, reduced sunlight and lower temperatures have affected the normal production of coffee," the Federation said in its report released this November 10. As for exports of grain, the October totaled 592,000 bags, representing a decline of six percent compared to that reported for the same month of 2010 when it was 632,000 bags. Meanwhile, so far this year (January to October) 6'093 000 bags were exported, three percent compared with a year earlier. United States and Japan are the main destinations for exports of coffee from Colombia. The union said that coffee was faced with a winter emergency plan against rust, associated with the adoption of a program for the recovery of production through the renovation of coffee plantations by planting varieties resistant to this fungus.
"Among the results achieved it is worth noting that to date have been renovated more than 100,000 hectares of coffee plantations by planting trees massive variety Castle and its regional variations and has improved the health of the coffee park, downhill rust infection, alarming levels of 44 percent to a more manageable 12 percent. "

Coffee production would reach 11 million bags in 2012

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While other sectors of agriculture estimated their data to the low, the National Coffee Growers Federation is more optimistic. Luis Genaro Muñoz, president of the guild, is convinced that the end of the year Colombia will reach a production of 9.5 million bags. A figure that positively shut the country a period of two years of low indicators, 7.8 and 8.9 million bags in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
The estimate, according to Munoz, is based on the conditions of good practice that generates Federacafé, especially with the return of crops. Just as the increase in global consumer market, which fails to be satisfied by existing inventories. Continue reading →

Coffee production grew 29% in November

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According to a press report of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, Colombia in November produced 979,000 bags of 60 kilos of coffee, 29% compared with 760,000 bags harvested in the same month last year. He added that exports increased 27% and stood at 784,000 bags of 60 kilos.
During November 2010 the international price of coffee on the New York Stock Exchange averaged $ 204.67 per pound and the average domestic price stood at 790,881 published pesos per load of 125 kilograms. Continue reading →

Coffee will produce 9 million bags this year

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This was stated by Luis Muñoz Gender, manager of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, the National Coffee Congress beginning in Bogota.
According to the production manager will be lower than expected for the winter plaguing the country and also revealed that the revaluation account of the sector has lost about $ 100,000 million.
In its report, the manager of the Federation reported that despite the adverse outcomes in production, the value of the crop recorded between January and October 2010 was $ 3.2 billion, 18% higher than the same period in 2009 . This result is explained largely by the added value strategy, which has allowed the Colombian producers participating in a larger portion of the value in the marketing chain

Colombian government spent $ 200,000 million aid to coffee

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Resources for about 200 billion pesos have been allocated by the Government to support the work of coffee growers in the country. The announcement was made by President Juan Manuel Santos to install the Coffee Congress in Bogota.
"To grow and overcome the ravages of winter, and have appropriated 96 billion dollars to support the renovation of coffee plantations and combat rust, provided that such renewal is made with varieties resistant to disease," said the president of the Colombian people. "Now is the right time to put the pedal to the programs to combat rust and coffee renovation of aging, to increase the productivity of our plants and prepare to meet the great demand worldwide," he said. "It is possible that both backlog in technology development since the eighties have only been transferred to a third of our park coffee. We still have two thirds of the area sown to varieties susceptible to rust and it exposes us to an incalculable risk, "said President Santos, according to news release from the Presidential Palace. Continue reading →

The coffee will drive the engine setting, says President Santos

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The coffee sector is the major agricultural jalonador locomotive, said the President, Juan Manuel Santos, in his speech during the installation of the National Congress of the guild.
The announcement was made Wednesday by the Head of State, the ratification of each of the points that are part of Prosperity Coffee Agreement, signed with the union in August.
"Today I want to ratify, in all its parts, the Prosperity Coffee Agreement that we signed three months ago, because we do coffee, not the slightest doubt, the great promoter of our agricultural engine," said the president.
He recalled that the field is one of the five locomotives that the Government has identified to stimulate the economy and generate progress, and that precisely this Agreement Prosperity recognizes the crucial role it plays coffee in the rural sector.
"Coffee is the source of income for over half a million of Colombian families, and is a major generator of employment and social equity in much of the country," said President Santos.
He noted that for this reason the Government is committed to supporting and improving the productivity and competitiveness of the coffee in the international environment, especially considering that coffee revenues are shared with equity and social welfare become for millions of Colombians .
"We can not squander the potential of a sector that employs one of every three rural workers, equivalent to more than 750 thousand direct jobs and 1.5 million indirect jobs. We can not neglect a product that generates 30 percent of our agricultural exports, accounting for 17 percent of our agricultural GDP, "the Head of State.

In Colombia, coffee takes more imported

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Although Colombia is currently the third largest producer of coffee, increasingly have to resort to foreign grain to meet domestic consumption. Any account of the crash that took his crop in 2009, which barely reached to 7.8 million bags, having come from 11 million bags.
Part of that is missing is filling with imports, while recovering the domestic industry affected by bad weather.
Those purchases, although not new, in 2009 amounted to 770,000 bags, when on average were 400,000 bags per year. Colombia consumes about 1.5 million bags and exports between 8 million and 10 million bags. Continue reading →

Colombian coffee in the world market reported a price of $ 1.98 per pound

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On Thursday April 15 fell to U.S. $ 2 and dropped the 'ceiling' that took the grain from the January 11, 2010.
By day 18 of the same month, came up to $ 2.1453, which resulted in the country, good news for the coffee sector. According to several experts in the coffee market there is no specific reason for the decline in the price. In general, due to factors exogenous to the law of supply and demand of grain.
"For example, it may be that investment funds took positions in coffee, while yesterday it could do with other agricultural commodities or metals or that there was a slight recovery of the dollar against other currencies," said Jorge Lozano, CEO of Asopexport, the guild of coffee exporters.
Every day in the New York Stock Exchange traded between 5 and 10 million bags of 60 kilos of coffee.