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A fund company benefits from the decline in coffee production in Vietnam and Brazil.

Published: 2024-11-02 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/02, Vietnam's Robusta coffee production will decline due to the strongest El Ni ñ o in nearly 20 years, while Brazil is at risk of falling for three consecutive years because of the drought. This made Anthony Ward, co-founder of Amazaro, a British hedge fund, happy. The CC+ fund founded by Ward focuses on coffee and cocoa

Vietnam's Robusta coffee bean production will decline due to the strongest El Niño event in nearly 20 years, while Brazil is also at risk of losing its Robusta coffee crop for three consecutive years due to drought. That pleases anthony ward, co-founder of armazaro, a british hedge fund.

Ward, whose CC+ fund focuses on coffee and cocoa, said Vietnam's coffee production, the world's largest producer of Robusta coffee, would drop 20 percent in the next quarter.

Demand for Robusta coffee in London has reportedly been soaring for 19 months, with fund managers most optimistic about the next four years. Global supply of the beans used in instant coffee will fall by 6m bags between 2016 and 2017, according to UK firm Marex Specter. The shortfall is reported to be almost entirely offset by an oversupply of Arabica coffee.

"The coffee market is going to be interesting for the first time in a while," Ward said in an interview last week at the Eurococoa Forum in Croatia."Robusta coffee is where the stories (are)."

Drought during crop development is reported to damage coffee beans that can be harvested the following season.

Coffee production in Vietnam could fall to 22 million to 23 million bags next quarter, Ward said. His company's CC+ fund reportedly uses up to a quarter of its capital to trade "other agricultural products

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