Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
Physical robusta coffee trade in Europe has begun to decrease during the summer holiday. However, traders said that flows of Indonesian robusta coffee have strengthened after a futures rally and a late start to harvest, as announced by Business Recorder. Since cash trade slowed in Europe and a number of factories were set to shut for a few weeks during
The world sixth largest coffee producer, India, depends on its Southern State of Karnataka for around 70% of the country’s total coffee yield. But the severe weather conditions, with high temperatures and low rainfalls hitting the coffee plants at the important flowering stages, are to impact the fruit formation badly hence affecting the overall expected yield; reported Reuters India. The state-run
The extreme weather conditions have been holding tightly the Vietnam’s Central Highland coffee belt. This is the worst drought in 30 years. According to the Vietnam’s National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the temperatures are expected to be 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius higher than usual. The 599 reservoirs used for irrigation in Dak Lak province are up to 20% non-functional
India might be one of the world’s largest coffee producer countries, but the nation as a whole is still a tea drinker. Many coffee growing farmers may never have tasted coffee in their lives as coffee is just another crop they sell to the west. Nearly two third of the population doesn’t drink coffee.
Serious water shortages brought by the El Niño weather phenomenon are expected to hit coffee production in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the country’s key growing region, in the first half of 2016, an industry body said on Tuesday, according to the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association. “The situation with drought will seriously affect robusta coffee production in the Central Highlands,” the association said
ASIA – World robusta coffee demand is expected to grow in the coming months, driven by rising consumption in emerging economies, and will sharply outpace stagnant demand for arabica, according to JakartaGlobe that reported a Reuters news. Consumers in emerging economies, notably in Asia, are driving demand growth for robusta, used in cheaper instant coffees, while demand for arabica beans, blended