Cooparaiso Sees Brazil Reaping Record Off-Year Coffee Harvest
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Coffee growers in Brazil, the world’s largest producer, will harvest a record crop for a season in which trees enter the lower-yielding half of the two-year cycle, according to growers cooperative Cooparaiso.
Production will be 47 million to 48 million bags in the 2013-14 season, Francisco Ourique, a manager at the cooperative in Sao Sebastiao do Paraiso in the state of Minas Gerais, said in an interview in London yesterday. That is down from 51 million bags a year earlier. The season in Brazil usually starts in July, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A bag of coffee weighs 132 pounds (60 kilograms).