Coffee shipments from Uganda, Africa’s second largest producer, are significantly down over the first three months of the country’s 2012-13 season after a disappointing December.
According to sources in a recent Bloomberg report
, heavy rains last month affecting ripening and delayed some drying of Uganda coffee, decreasing its output by more than 1,500 bags in December. Here’s more from the Bloomberg report:
Uganda’s coffee exports in the first three months of the 2012-13 season dropped to 641,828 bags from 684,443 bags a year earlier, according to a tally of the authority figures by Bloomberg News.
The country’s export earnings from the crop dropped to $392.75 million last season from $448.89 million earned from 3.15 million bags a year earlier, according to the UCDA.
The East African nation, the continent’s biggest grower of the beans after Ethiopia, consumes about 3 percent of its annual crop, according to the Eastern Africa Fine Coffee Association.
The full story: Bloomberg
Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine.
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