Ecuador’s June Coffee Exports Surge 23 Percent to 2012 High
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Coffee exports from Ecuador, South America’s second-biggest producer of Robusta beans, surged 23 percent in June to its highest level this year as changes in rain patterns boosted harvests that month.
Ecuadorean farmers exported 144,788 bags in June, up from 117,335 bags last year, the National Coffee Council, known as Cofenac, said today in an e-mailed statement. Above-average rainfall, which lasted through May, delayed harvests of Arabica beans by about two months coinciding with the beginning of Robusta collection in June, Luis Duicela, director of Cofenac’s technical division, said today in a telephone interview from the city of Manta.