El Niño, not quake, to hit Colombian coffee harvest, sector leader says
The federation expects output to fall 8% to 12.5 million 60-kilogram bags as El Niño and earlier rains threaten crops.
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El Niño, not quake, to hit Colombian coffee harvest, sector leader says
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Colombia's coffee harvest has dodged the impact of a powerful earthquake that hit farming regions throughout the western part of the country, the head of the National Coffee Growers Federation told Reute...
The recent strong earthquake in Colombia did not affect the coffee harvest, which is however being significantly affected by the El Niño weather phenomenon and prolonged rain, the Latin American country's coffee growers' association said on Friday.
German Bahamón, president of Fedecafé, said that the climatic phenomena present in the year could decrease by 12.5 million bags the production of coffee
Colombia's coffee harvest has not been affected by the earthquake that shook the southwest and center of the country, which produces about 30% of the national total, the manager of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, Germán Bahamón, told Reuters, who reported normal exports from the maritime port of Buenaventura.
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