Coffee exports down by 10% in Apr-June

Coffee exports declined by 10 percent to 1.29 lakh tonnes inthe first 4 months of the current financial year, the Coffee Board has said. The country had shipped 1.43 lakh tonnes of the brew in the April-July period of 2011-12 fiscal.

In terms of earnings, exports fell marginally to Rs 1,931.87 crore in April-July this fiscal from Rs 1,943.37 crore in the year-ago period.In the January-July period of the current calender year, the shipments of coffee declined by 5 per cent to 2.29 lakh tonnes from 2.41 lakh tonnes in the same period of 2011.

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Exports of arabica variety of coffee rose marginally to 45,861 tonnes in the January-July period of 2012 from 44,577 tonnes in the year-ago period, while that of robusta fell to 1.27 lakh tonnes from 1.38 lakh tonnes in the same period.

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Coffee exports in the first 10 months of the present coffee year (October-September) fell by 7 percent to 2.86 lakh tonnes from 3.06 lakh tonnes in the October-July period of the 2010-11 coffee year.

The country had exported a record 3.48 lakh tonnes of the brew worth Rs 4,888.30 crore in 2011-12 fiscal as compared to 3.16 lakh tonnes worth Rs 3,674.98 crore in 2010-11.

PTI