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Coffee production in Jamaica will hit a 20-year low in 2014

Published: 2024-09-20 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/20, According to the Jamaican Observer, the production of tooth blue mountain coffee and alpine coffee is expected to be 130000 cases and 31000 cases respectively in the crop year 2013, down 40% and 27% respectively from the same period last year, and the output reached a 20-year low.

According to the Jamaican Observer, the production of tooth blue mountain coffee and alpine coffee is expected to be 130000 cases and 31000 cases respectively in the crop year 2013, down 40% and 27% respectively from the same period last year, and the output reached a 20-year low.

Minot, president of the Tooth Coffee Growers Association, said that since 2008, affected by rust and hurricanes, farmers have begun to abandon a large number of wasteland, resulting in a decline in coffee production year by year.

Imports of dental coffee are expected to soar by 40% in 2014 to meet domestic demand, Minot said. In 2012, coffee imports from teeth totaled US $1.78 million, up 23 per cent from 2008, while exports were US $17.3 million, down more than 10 per cent from the same period last year.

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