Global coffee production in 2010-11 crop year is likely to go up by 12.5 per cent to 135 million bags due to higher yield in Brazil, International Coffee Organisation (ISO) has said.
The global production of coffee is estimated to be around 120 million bags in 2009-10 crop year, a 6.3 per cent dip over that in 2008-09. Coffee year runs from October to September.
A bag contains 60 kg of coffee.
"As the crop year (2010-11) is a high production year in the biennial cycle that characterises Arabica production in Brazil, it is envisaged that the Brazilian crop will rise to around 47 million bags," ISO said in a report.
Production in Columbia is also expected to recover after the two consecutive years of low output, it said, however, adding the high level of production originally anticipated in Vietnam could be affected due to climatic problems.
Meanwhile, coffee exports, in the first nine months of the current crop year, fell 6.8 per cent to 69.8 million bags from 74.9 million bags a year ago.
Global coffee consumption in calendar year 2009 stood at 128.8 million bags compared to 130.7 million bags in 2008, a fall of 1.5 per cent.
