Global coffee exports decline in April 2022
KAMPALA– Global exports of green beans in April 2022 totalled 9.86 million bags, compared with 10.16mln bags in the same month of the previous year, according to International Coffee Organization [ICO].
ICO in its latest report for the month of May 2022 adds that exports for the green beans reached 69.67mln bags in the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22, a decrease of 0.9 percent as compared with 70.28mln bags for the same period in the coffee year 2020/21.
ICO attributes the decline in the exports of green beans to reduced shipments of Brazilian Naturals. Global exports of green beans fell by 12.2 percent in April 2022 to 2.87mln bags, from 3.27mln bags in April 2021, and by 11.3 percent over the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22, which were 22.98mln bags, compared with 25.91mln bags in the same period a year ago.
Specifically, ICO says, the underlying reason for the decline lies with lower export from Brazil, due to recorded container and shipping constraints along with a smaller crop harvested during its Arabica “off-season”.
Exports of the Colombian Milds decreased 13.2 percent to 0.9mln bags in April 2022 from 1.04mln bags in April 2021, and remaining down 10.8 percent for the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22 at 7.5mln bags from 8.41mln bags in October-April 2020/21.
Shipments of the Other Milds increased by 1.4 percent in April to 2.51mln bags from 2.47mln bags in the same period last year.
For the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22, exports of the Other Milds were 13.33mln bags as compared with 11.96mln bags in October-April 2020/21, a 11.4 percent increase.
Exports of Robusta were 3.58mln bags in April 2022, as compared with 3.38mln bags in April 2021, up 5.9%. Exports of green beans for the first seven months of the current and previous coffee years for Robusta are 25.86mln bags and 24.0mln bags, respectively, up 7.7 percent.
Meanwhile, exports from Africa decreased by 10.1 percent to 1.08mln bags in April 2022 from 1.2mln bags in February 2021.
For the first seven months of the current coffee year, exports totalled 7.35mln bags as compared with 7.52mln bags in coffee year 2020/21. “Uganda is the main reason for the region’s sharp drop in the April exports, which is attributed to lower production stemming from droughts in some parts of the coffee-growing regions of the country,” said ICO in its report.
In April, exports of Uganda fell by 24.1 percent to 0.41mln bags as compared with 0.54mln bags in April 2021. Uganda grows both Arabica and Robusta coffee and is Africa’s top exporter.
For the seven months of coffee year 2021/22, exports decreased to 3.28mln bags as compared with 3.4mln bags over the same period a year ago.
Ethiopia, Africa’s top producer of coffee, exported 0.35mln bags in April 2022, and 1.87mln bags in the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22, up 24.2 percent.
Exports of Tanzania increased by 16.7 percent in April 2022 to 64,001 bags from 54,852 bags in April 2021, leaving the total volume for the first seven months of coffee year 2021/22 at 0.72mln, marginally up at 0.1 percent from 0.72mln bags in October-April 2020/21.
Buy your copy of theCooperator magazine from one of our countrywide vending points or an e-copy on emag.thecooperator.news
