LColombian coffee production fell by 9% in 2021, when 12.6 million bags of 60 kilos of green coffee were registered, compared to the 2020 harvest with 13.9 million bags.
This means that coffee production fell for the second consecutive year, when compared to 2019, when 14.7 million bags were registered. Production for 2021 is a throwback to 2014 levels, when 12.1 million were produced.
reasons
According to the National Federation of Coffee Growers, this result is explained by the negative impact of the blockades in the second quarter of the year and by the effect of the weather in some coffee growing regions that could reduce production.
This is confirmed by Rosalba Castillo, coffee leader from Ocamonte and the only woman on the Santander Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers, who believes that production fell last year, not because of the effects of the pandemic on the economy, but because of the heavy rains and strong droughts in the country.
“But this year there is a lot of optimism, coffee growers expect a good year for 2022 because there are many plantings and renovations, and producers are interested in the price of coffee,” Rosalba estimates.
In December, production reached 1.4 million bags, 21% less compared to the 1.7 million bags registered in the same month of 2020. And so far this coffee year (October–December 2021), production fell 19% to 3.5 million bags, versus 4.3 million in the same previous period.
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Tasks in Santander
Héctor Santos Galvis, representative for Santander before the National and Steering Committee of the Federation, affirms that the drop in production is largely due to the national strike, because between April and June exports were affected, an indicator that is directly related to the production.
“We were also affected by the volume of production on the farms, which fell in percentage terms, for example in Santander it was between 20% and 40%,” he calculates.
For Santos Galvis, the main task this year is to meet the export volumes, as well as the maintenance of the coffee plantations, fertilization and waiting for good weather between January and February, and part of March, so that there is good flowering.
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Exports
The Federation also revealed that exports decreased by 1% in 2021, and stood at 12.4 million bags of 60 kilos of green coffee, compared to 12.5 million bags exported in 2020.
The figures are also negative for exports in December, when they decreased by 10%, from 1.2 million bags compared to 1.3 million exported in December 2020.
As for the coffee year, coffee exports were 3.3 million 60-kg bags, 9% less than the 3.6 million exported in the same previous period.
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The National Federation of Coffee Growers in Santander is represented in the Santander Coffee Growers Committee, founded on December 10, 1928 and which is currently made up of 32,442 coffee-growing families, with 97% of its coffee growing planted in resistant varieties.
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