Peru: Coffee Annual
After years of struggling with coffee leaf rust outbreaks, Peruvian coffee production is forecast at 4.5 million bags (60-kilograms per bag) during marketing year 2017/18 (MY 2017/18), an increase of seven percent compared to the previous year. Coffee producers benefited from higher international prices in 2016. Peru’s exports of coffee in MY 2017/18 are forecast at 4.3 million bags, up eight percent from last year. Exports are forecast to continue increasing as coffee leaf rust outbreaks abate and planted area expands as a result of the government’s program to renew 80,000 hectares of coffee land.
