Honduras - Coffee growers face escalating woes after hurricanes

01.12.2020 184 views
Coffee-crop losses in Honduras, Central America’s top producer and exporter, may increase to almost 10% after hurricanes damaged vast stretches of the country’s infrastructure, an industry group said. “The biggest risk we have now is how long the authorities will take to repair access to the coffee regions,” Miguel Pon, executive director of Adecafeh, the top export association, said in an email. “It’s estimated that more than 15% of the coffee-road grids were affected, and if in 30 days they are not fixed, we could lose another 460,000 bags.” The deluge last month from the hurricanes named Iota and Eta accelerated coffee-bean maturation, and the labor force has been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic. The Honduran Coffee Institute had said that coffee output may shrink as much as 2.5%, or 160,000 bags, while warning that additional losses might loom. Iota, the Atlantic’s strongest storm of a turbulent year, dumped as much as 800 millimeters (31 inches) of rain in some growing regions after Eta left as much as 500 millimeters. Arabica-coffee futures in New York jumped 18% in November amid the Central American weather damage and adverse crop conditions in Brazil, the top producer of the premium beans favored by Starbucks Inc. Following Iota, damage to bridges and roads was reported in 185 municipalities from 14 producing provinces, Pon of Adecafeh said. Many farmers lost their homes, and mills were destroyed. “We see an uncertain outlook regarding 2020-21 exports,” Pon said following an initial estimate of 6.2 million bags. “At this moment, there’s very little movement across different receiving areas compared with prior years, just as we approach the peak of the harvest.” Iota hurt 4,300 hectares (10,626 acres), reducing the crop by 120,000 bags, Pon said. Production in Honduras had tumbled from records this decade amid a slump in coffee prices. As many as 1 million people were hired at the peak of the season for the harvest. In Iota’s path in Central America, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua were expected to account for 12% of global arabica production in the 2020-21 marketing year, U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts showed. Source - https://www.bloombergquint.com
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