Cooxupe
Coffee Co-op’s Production in Brazil Falling 32%
April 12 - 2021 Coffee Geography Magazine
Coffee
production from growers associated with Brazil's Cooxupe, the world's largest
coffee co-op, is seen falling by almost a third to 7.49 million 60-kg bags in
2021, Cooxupe said announced.
The
32% fall in production, down from 10.99 million bags in 2020,comes as top
global producer Brazil enters the off-year in the biennial coffee production
cycle. The co-op said dryer-than-normal weather and very high temperatures
since late last year caused production to fall more than it would normally.
The
expected volume at Cooxupe's area in Minas Gerais state will be smaller than
the 7.7 million bags seen in the last off-year crop in 2019. The co-op is
Brazil's largest coffee exporting company. It posted total revenues of 5.03
billion reais ($893.19 million) in 2020.
Carlos
Augusto Rodrigues de Melo, Cooxupe's president
Carlos
Augusto Rodrigues de Melo, Cooxupe's president, said the unfavorable weather
also resulted in a slower development, so he expects the start of the harvest
to come a little later than normal, at the end of May or early June.