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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 imported by Colombia to 8.6% of national production

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The shortage of Colombian beans in the world market has become necessary to maintain imports. Producers say that grain purchases are the second coming from Peru, Guatemala and Mexico.
The stark drop in coffee production in the country, completing 15 consecutive months, has led to import a national flag. Even a company the size of the Nacional de Chocolates has announced plans to sell at home coffee made with imported grain mixes with adequate information to consumers.
According to figures reported by the Dane, in January, 2661 entered the country tons of unroasted coffee and decaffeinated, ie raw material for processing and sale locally. Continue reading →