Coffee exports from Brazil, the world’s leading producer, and exporter of the bean, registered a 10.3% drop in April compared to the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday by the Coffee Exporters Council (Cecafé).
In April 2023, 2,722,180 bags of 60 kilograms were exported, against 3,034,482 in the same month last year.
Export sales fell 16.9% in April, in the year-on-year comparison, according to statistics released by Cecafé in the city of São Paulo.
In the accumulated of the year, exports reached 11,096,777 bags of 60 kilograms, 19.9 percent less than in the first four months of 2022.
According to Cecafé, the leading destinations for Brazilian coffee were the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Colombia, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, and Argentina.
The president of Cecafé, Márcio Ferreira, highlighted in a statement that, despite the negative performance so far, prospects are generally encouraging for the sector, mainly due to the interest in the arabica-type coffee crop in contracts in the coming months
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