Executive

summary
As per the latest statistics available with the
Coffee Board, exports climbed up 53% to 2.65
lakh tonne in the current coffee year from 1.74
lakh tonnes recorded in the previous season.

“Exports are expected to cross 2.70 lakh by

September 30 as applications of 10-12 large
exporters applied for permits would be
disposed off by this month,” said an official
attached to the state-owned Coffee Board.

In the last crop year, which ended September

2009, India exported 1.78 lakh tonne of coffee.
Foreign exchange fetched by coffee exports
surged a whopping 44% to $569 million till
September 17, 2010 from $ 396 million in the
same period a year ago. In rupee terms,
overseas revenue touched Rs 2,715 crore, up
from 1,906 crore a year ago.

Exports surged on the back of increased coffee

production in the country. Coffee production in
2009-10 crop year climbed to 2,89,600 tonne
from 2,62,300 tonne in the previous season.

Nearly 90% of the coffee produced in the

country was exported in the current crop year

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against 67% in the last crop year, a Coffee
Board official said. The increase in export
volume was also due to decline in output in
other exporting countries like Brazil, Vietnam
and Colombia.

Coffee production in Brazil (largest producer)

declined to 39.47 million bags in the current
crop year from 45.99 million bags while it
tumbled to 18 million bags from 18.5 million
bags in Vietnam, which is the second largest
producer. Production in Colombia, which
stands in the fourth place ahead of India in the
world coffee producing chart, fell to 8.50
million bags from 8.66 million bags. World
coffee production in 2009-10 declined by 6.6%
to 119.90 million bags from 128.43 million
bags a year ago.

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