The price of Jamaican coffee rebounded quickly.

Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association chairman Minot said that due to poor control of leaf rust and berry borer, tooth coffee bean production hit a 30-year low. Coffee bean prices have risen more than 50 percent in recent months to more than 5000 dental dollars ($45) per box. Rising costs have led to a corresponding rise in the price of green and roasted coffee, with Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee currently retailing at between 2000 and 4000 dollars an ounce, up 50 percent from a year earlier. Although farmers are beginning to invest more, coffee is a long-term crop and it is expected to take two to three years for yields to return to normal levels.

The Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association forecasts a 40 per cent decline in dental coffee production for the 2013/14 crop year, with 130,000 cases of Blue Mountain coffee and 31,000 cases of Alpine coffee.

Dental coffee exports were $17.3 million in 2012, down from $25 million annually since the financial crisis.