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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

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 →

'Coffee Cultivation of the country recovers this year, "says Luis Genaro Muñoz

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The manager of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, Luis Genaro Muñoz, gave an interview in response to his critics.
What is happening with coffee production?
The dramatic decline in coffee production in 2009 is explained by the simultaneous occurrence of exceptional circumstances: rain levels higher in coffee areas up to 150 percent historical average and lower fertilizer application due to rising oil prices .
During the first quarter of 2010 has collected the coffee harvest product blooms that sprang up in August 2009 and which were affected by the relentless winter of last year.
What next?
For the remainder of the year, we expect an increase in coffee production in the first half to 4.5 million bags and a total annual production of around 11 million bags. The basis of optimism is in the excellent behavior of the climate and the increase of 40 percent in fertilization.
We must not forget that the best coffee crops in Colombia's history, have occurred in the years of occurrence of El Niño.
What happened to rust?
At present there are still 75,000 hectares planted in marginal areas not suitable for coffee cultivation, which were affected significantly by the rust last year and have not been converted to varieties developed by Colombia and Castillo Cenicafé resistant to this disease.
To address this problem with Fertifuturo offered, discounts for the purchase of fertilizers, as well as through the coffee renovation program, loans on favorable terms to renew those resistant coffee varieties.
And the bit?
I have to say that the country has learned to manage this pest by cultural practices such as the Re-Re that requires the collection of grains mature, over-ripe and dried they are both in the tree, and on the ground. This makes it a wasteful activity, which is mainly carried out with rigor by the owners of small coffee crops.
This is evidenced Almacafé records in which there are departments with infestation levels of 15 percent and others with bit 2 percent.
Is it true that the Federation had large losses for violating export contracts in 2009?
The Federation did not breach any export contract in 2009. The commitments of coffee that had some delay in delivery during the first months of 2009 were fulfilled.
Obviously, last year the shortage of coffee in Colombia affected the entire export sector. Fortunately, with a great effort from both private exporters, and the National Coffee Fund could honor the international commitments on many occasions at the expense of normal business margins.
Was there coffee imports to pass that grain as Colombian and sell abroad?
That is impossible because the rule requires that the coffee entering Colombia destined for the roasting industry must meet phytosanitary protocols, which require a degree of roasting to achieve the minimum humidity admitted.
This makes coffee denatured, not capable of being exported as green coffee because the beans change color. Additionally, the Colombian industry is very serious and if that happens, the quality controls carried out in port does not allow this coffee out of the country. Making such claims is an irresponsible act that jeopardizes the credibility of Colombia as a serious supplier of coffee.
What is the cause of these imports?
First of all I must clarify that coffee imports are not controlled by the Federation of Coffee Growers and the freedom to make is part of the country's trade agreements. The roasting industry in Colombia are carried out to provide themselves with cheaper raw materials because they can not actually move the international price of our coffee to Colombian consumers.
Forcing Colombian coffee growers to sell their coffee at half price, would be an injustice by seeking subsidies to domestic consumers. As a representative of the farmers I see with great pleasure that farmers sell their coffee to two dollars abroad and not at half price as required by national roasters.
What is the international market situation?
The market until the late 90's was a market over-bid. Since 2002, demand for coffee is greater than supply. This situation is mainly due to stable and sustained growth in consumption, which will cause the world coffee market in front during the coffee year 2009/10, which ends in September, a deficit of 6.3 million bags.
The premium is paid for Colombian coffee is very high. Is not there a danger that the price will pick up production if?
To answer this question we need to analyze the behavior of soft coffee market, a segment which is the production of Colombia, Central America and African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Burundi.
None of them, except for Colombia, has the capacity to increase exports. What I mean is that although Colombia regains its full level of production during the second half, the market has enough room to absorb this increase, as well as inventories in origin, roasters and the bag are very low. This suggests that the premium of Colombia does not fall abruptly.
How to recover lost market internationally?
Loyal customers at home, such as those involved in the program 100 percent Colombia coffee and those who have products and programs related to Colombia, are continuing.
Our current priority is to concentrate all efforts on satisfying the demand that exists for coffee from Colombia, to recover our participation in the business of each customer. This is because the low availability of other circumstantial similar to the Colombian coffee, which is why we feel that roasters will go back to Colombia, the only country that offers fresh coffee producer in significant amounts throughout the year.
Does the National Coffee Fund's ability to increase their inventories?
Building strategic inventories is not an issue of the situation because each grain that Colombia produces is required by the international market.
Should they be brave domestic producers?
While producers have also suffered from the decline of their crop in the recent past, now look at your business and your coffee and feel optimistic that we started to turn the page. The excellent blooms, the state of the coffee, the discounts offered by Fertifuturo to purchase fertilizers, credit demand and optimism about the harvest of the second half, suggest that 2010 is the year of recovery of Colombian coffee.
What private exporters?
Last year was very difficult for both private exporters and for the Federation. Fortunately the private export sector is made up of national and multinational companies linked to our country for decades and who know the market very well. We have the responsibility of the original warranty period we developed through more than 500 points of purchase, which is to ensure the producer far getting your coffee at a market price.
Of the 7.8 million bags last year Colombia was only 5 million were available for the export of green coffee undifferentiated, since the rest was used by the domestic industry or sold as specialty coffee priced higher than standard coffee Colombia.
Thus the mass available for the export sector has decreased, which further explains why the business has been difficult.
Why are you giving so much stick?
Many third-party interests that promote debates against the Federation. And this is not the first nor the last time this happens. The machine is quiet leadership fulfilling the mission of the institution, which is to bring the greatest good coffee to 527,000 families, of which 510,000 have less than 5 hectares. They are peasants living on his farm and work from dawn to dusk.
So our mandate of maximizing farmer income, often at odds with the economic interests of many of the owners of the club. However, I believe that the country demands results. What you called stick against me, I interpret as the sum of concerns of the country, facing the future of an activity that constitutes a strategic capital for the Colombian countryside. As we progress, I understand the barking.
We hear a lot of investment of the Federation, as the Merchant Fleet Bank and Coffee, etc.. What do you think?
The truth I'm not concerned with these issues. The fleet is over 18 years, the Bank ceased to be the guild for 11. My work now focuses on securing the future of 527,000 coffee producing families.

The National Championship Taster already winner

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Lasso Wbeimar Bolaños was crowned last weekend as the National Champion Cupping during the Second International Specialty Coffee Fair (ExpoEspeciales) 2009, held in the capital of Tolima.
In addition to local recognition of the trade coffee, also won the international juries, three million pesos in cash and as a reward 'more' will represent Colombia in the World Cup Master Championship to be held in London next year.
The event, supported by the National Federation of Coffee Growers, was organized (technically) by the Norwegian Alf Kramer, the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) and organizer of the World Cup Tasters Championship since 2004, the U.S. also CQI Kelly Peltier and instructor training, and the Colombian Nicolas Rodriguez, technical director of the Specialty Coffee Association of Colombian and instructor training for coffee tasters.
The competition was enrolled 42 participants from across the country, from all the links in the chain of production and marketing of coffee, who underwent trials of cupping coffees.
Organizers said that with this championship seeks to exalt the great work of Colombian coffee tasters and give them equal status and credibility of wine tasters. Likewise, it seeks to stimulate interest in coffee tasting through a fun, fast, fair and friendly competition.
The winner is agroindustrial engineer, is 28 and hails from San Pedro de Carthage (Nariño), while his family is dedicated to coffee in that department. In the race he joined 41 other participants from around the country, including producers, tasters import and export companies, the National Federation of Coffee Growers, committees and cooperatives of grain growers. David Molina Gomez, Caldas (Antioquia) was second, Cristina Garces, third, and Eliezer Pinzon, the fourth.

Colombian coffee prices reached $ 2.11 per pound

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The international price of grain rose to $ 2.11 yesterday May 12. The amended scheme guild domestic price. This price was reported by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) and, paradoxically worries the national coffee institutions.
According to the ICO, the reference price for May 12, which was released today is 211.32 cents per pound of Colombian mild Arabic. But in New York, even as the price reached 226.25 cents per pound.
The reference price is an average between the market of New York and Germany. In this country, the pound reached 199.58 cents. These prices are the highest since 1997.
The concern of the OIC itself and exporters consulted is that the Colombian coffee is rising simply because there is sufficient supply after winter last year.
As prices rise, to meet the commitments would have to respond with lower quality coffee while beverage producers would replace the Colombian blended coffees by others.
The Government and the National Federation of Coffee Growers now define a strategy to try to make the most of high grain prices recorded in the international market, despite the low production reported by the country.
Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, anticipated that there will be measures to ensure that growers can benefit 500,000 families of favorable prices. Therefore, he said, will announce the implementation of a new system of valuation and the domestic price of grain. This is a scheme approved by the National Coffee Committee that encourages grain quality and seeks to improve the income of producers.
The rare moment of prices has become a paradox for the sector, as there is enough coffee to sell.
Jorge Lozano, president of the Association of Coffee Exporters Private, Asoexport, said "there is distress in the guild" because you do not have enough product to meet the offices.
"The farmer has to be happy because you are compensating for the lack of production with a very good price. Unfortunately not much to sell and that is our trouble, "admitted the leader. He said that despite the good prices the prospect of a boom not seen anywhere, because there is simply no grain available. "It's very unpleasant for the toaster. He has the need to buy Colombian coffee and high prices do not like or five. And it will find that not happen again, "he said. "We have a client who is looking for alternatives. That's not good for Colombian coffee, "the President of Asoexport.
Lower production
Lozano said it is anticipated that between July 2008 and June, coffee production falling 2.5 million bags compared to previous period. This is a "very important figure," he added, facing a production of 11.5 million bags estimated for the entire year.
The official revealed that even though still undelivered production figures last April, "the decline was substantial because the records of coffee for export stood at about 450,000 bags, 200,000 less than normal."
According to the National Federation of Coffee, Colombian production fell 30% in the first two months of 2009 compared to same period last year, while exports declined by 20%.
According to the report, the fall was due to "lower production of grain, fruit of the renovation of coffee plantations, the effects of reduced fertilization and winter of the last months of 2008."
Meanwhile, the escalating price of coffee is attributed by economic analysts to a phenomenon of market speculation. Indeed, investors fear that this year there will be a substantial reduction in the supply of major producing countries like Brazil, and have begun to bet on higher prices in the future, so the price began to climb. In Brazil, the production will fall about six million bags this year, according to estimates by the Government of that country.

New system for valuation and liquidation of the domestic price of coffee

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Bogota, April 1, 2009 (coffee Information Network)
Starting today, the National Federation of Coffee Growers apply a new
system of valuation and the domestic price of coffee.
The new system, which was approved by the National Committee of Coffee Growers, the institution's highest authority, the farmer seeks to provide new practical tools to facilitate valuation and pricing, through a flexible, simple and offers incentives to quality .
With the new assessment tool, the farmer will not have to worry about the well-known performance factor (amount of parchment needed to get a sack of 70 kilos of coffee sublime) as it changed the value of healthy kernel, allowing that the more high quality coffee leads to the cooperative, the higher the price they receive for it.
Now the farmer define the value of your cargo according to the percentage of healthy almond, almond defective and cisco. The higher the percentage of kernel in the parchment sound the higher the price that farmers recognize the union.