Nicaragua: Coffee Annual Report
The 2015/2016 coffee harvest is expected to reach over 1,879,000 60kg bags, down 13 percent from the initial forecast. The harvest was not as good as initially expected due to El Niño, a cyclical weather phenomenon, which brought rising temperatures and lack of rain throughout Central America and other Latin American countries. However, this was not a general trend for the entire country; the impact of El Niño was much less on the mountainous region of Nicaragua, where most of Nicaragua’s coffee plantations are located, due its microclimate condition that guaranteed a more normal rainfall For 2016/2017, the coffee harvest is expected to reach over 2.02 million 60kg bags, an 8 percent increase compared to the current harvest, assuming good weather conditions.
