Colombia Cuts Coffee Output Forecast by 5.9% After Storms
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Colombia, the second-largest supplier of Arabica coffee beans after Brazil, trimmed its 2011 production estimate by 5.9 percent following rainstorms.
Output will slide to 8 million bags this year from 8.9 million bags last year, a spokeswoman at Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers, who can’t be identified because of federation policy, said today by telephone in Bogota.