Mexican coffee production falls to its lowest level in 45 years

Mexican coffee production has fallen for 15 consecutive years due to contagious leaf rust and a lack of policy support, reaching a 45-year low of 3.3 million bags in the 2014-2015 season, the Mexican financier reported. In the season of 1999-2000, the output of black coffee reached 6.2 million bags. At present, the yield of black coffee is 1.2 tons per hectare, which is also the lowest since records began.

In the 1990s, Mexican coffee production ranked fifth in the world, after Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Vietnam, and is now only ninth.

(the article comes from the Internet-- kenny)