Coffee bean production in Brazil will hit a new high

Brasilia, September 9 (Xinhua)-Brazil's National Supply Company predicted at the opening of the International Coffee Week on the 9th that Brazil, as the world's largest coffee producer, will produce 47.54 million bags of coffee in 2013 (60 kg per bag), down 6.46% from the previous year.

Brasilia, September 9 (Xinhua Liu Tong Yang Jiangling) Brazil's national supply company in the opening of the International Coffee Week on the 9th published a forecast that, as the world's largest coffee producer, Brazil's coffee production in 2013 will reach 47.54 million bags (60 kg per bag), down 6.46% from the previous year.

Brazil's coffee production this year has been reduced mainly because it is in the small year of the biennial coffee production cycle. However, SNSB still considers it a pretty good achievement to be able to achieve such a yield in a small year.

Brazil's coffee plantation reached 2.31 million hectares this year, a slight decrease of 0.74 percent from last year, the company said. Among them, Minas Gerais is the largest producing area, with an area of 1.24 million hectares, accounting for 53.49% of the total area of the country.

On the same day, International Coffee Week opened in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, with more than 200 representatives of international coffee organizations from 77 countries participating in the five-day event. It is expected that a contract of 20 million reais (about 8.7 million US dollars) will be signed during the event, indirectly bringing in 30 million reais (about 13.04 million US dollars) of investment.

----From Xinhua. com