Caribbean & Central America - November 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Bumper coffee harvest. El Salvador’s coffee exports for the 2010-2011 coffee harvest totalled US$458.2m. It was the best harvest for 11 years, according to the Consejo Salvadoreño del Café (CSC), and the industry was able to cash in as prices on the international market were also high. Total earnings from the coffee year, which extended from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, were up 139.3% on the same period a year earlier. Total exports by volume amounted to 2.26m quintals (1 quintal = 46 kilos), up by 74% on the previous year. The average price per quintal was also up, from US$147.3 to US$202.7 over this period.

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