Reports from the African Coffee Plantation

Nov 16
20:04

2008

boake moore

boake moore

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November and December is when most of the world starts harvesting gourmet coffee - so how does this year's coffee production look? And what effect did Africa and its emerging coffee farms have on the world production?

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The worlds' coffee crop report is outstanding - world production will far exceed expected and or forecasted projections for gourmet coffee this winter. Supply will be huge and alot of it is due to the wonderful gourmet coffee production coming from Africa.

This year's coffee report calls for major production improvement and output record levels for African coffee producing countries. The african production over run also allowed the global markets to exceed expectations. Still will the excess coffee the wholesale prices continue to increase. However as demand is not able to keep up with supply look for prices to plummet.

The South American coffee is far superior to the Africa coffee with Costa Rica having the worlds best coffee. Many consider Costa Rica,Reports from the African Coffee Plantation Articles Brazil and Columbia to have the finest coffee in the world. The Africa coffee is not even close in terms of quantity or quality and much of the African coffee is a robusta bean. Costa rica is a great coffee not found in Africa. The African coffees are also lacking in the production of certified organic coffee.

World coffee production in the current season will be greater than previously expected and will set a record, the Agriculture Department said today. The FDA announced coffee production was way up - near 100 million bags up.3 million from the previous forecast and over ten percent or approximately over 12 million bags above last year's crop. Improved prospects in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, the leading coffee-growing countries was the main factor in the higher estimate, the report said. Despite large world coffee supplies, several major retailers have raised prices in recent months because of actions taken under the International Coffee Agreement to prop up prices. Kenya and Nigeria commented that short term agriculture programs were finally taking effect and helping with production. Other cited factors included improved water, water supply and consistent water along with improved farming techniques and farming co-ops. Coffee farmers shared their resources and knowledge to help each other produce more.

So this winter by December you should start seeing some of this wonderful gourmet coffee crop in your local store. This years coffee will not only taste great but will be in huge quantity. And with such a huge supply the price should go down also. So toast that cheap but wonderful cup of gourmet coffee.