Brazil's largest baking oven seems to be expanding in South American markets such as Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

Brazil's largest roaster seems to be expanding in other markets

Tr ê sCora Marketing es, Brazil's largest coffee roaster with a 27% market share, plans to expand its South American Playa Marketing report through acquisitions in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, in the February issue of Coffidential Newsletter.

The joint venture between Brazil's S ã oMiguel and Israel's Strauss Group, Tr ê sCora yoga es, has acquired eight coffee companies in Brazil since 2005. Bloomberg said that the company had made a significant contribution to the integration of the national coffee market. In 2018, sales of the coffee Tr ê sCora oblique à es reached US $1.3 billion.

In terms of production, prolonged drought has led to abortions of coffee fruits in specific areas of Brazil, RevistaAttaleaAgroneg ó cios reported.

Studies have confirmed that coffee trees lose leaves on productive branches, which can lead to fruit that is exposed to water pressure for a long time or even a small amount of rain during the process of water loss.

According to Cecaf é, Brazil accounted for 32% of the world's coffee exports in 2019.

Brazil exported 35.2 million bags in 2018, including 31.5 million bags of green coffee, an increase of 15 per cent over the previous year. The largest buyer of coffee in Brazil in 2018 was the United States, 6.2 million bags, Germany, 5.6 million bags, Italy, 3.1 million bags.

O Estado de S. Paulo says China is becoming a growing market for Brazil, with Veloso Green Coffee Company sales growing by 30 per cent a year.

Compared with 2017, China's income increased 143 per cent compared with 2017, to $26.9 million, CeCaf é said.

Between 2008 and 2018, China's coffee consumption increased from 300000 bags to 3.8 million bags, an increase of more than 1000%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Conab expects Brazilian coffee production to increase from 50.5 million bags to 54.5 million bags in 2019. This number may be 11.6 to 18.1 per cent lower than the record 61.7 million bags registered in 2018 / 19.

A decline is expected as a result of the annual yield reduction in the Arabica two-year production cycle, but for crops with this characteristic, the expected yield is high.