Salvadoran coffee exports fell 5% until April

The export earnings of the coffee of El Salvador fell approximately 5% in the first seven months of the 2022-2023 cycle, according to official figures.

A report from the Salvadoran Coffee Council (CSC) reveals that income from the grain export they totaled 68.86 million dollars between October and April, while in the same period of the 2021-2022 cycle, 72.49 million dollars were computed.

The downward difference, according to official data, was 3.62 million dollars.

The volume of the grain exported also decreased in this period, going from 324,898 quintals to 307,891 at present, for a fall of 5.2%.

The main buyers of this grain, whose harvest cycle begins in El Salvador in October and ends in September, are the United States (44%), Germany (10%), Belgium (8%), Italy (6%) and Japan ( 5 %).

In the current cycle, 871,590 quintals of gold-grapes have been harvested, which have generated 43,580 jobs in the coffee sector, the report indicates.

The CSC data indicates that in the 2021-2022 cycle, 922,040 quintals of gold-grapes were harvested, without the country having recovered the production levels registered before 2013, when they exceeded 1.7 million quintals.

Salvadoran coffee farming has been hit by the rust fungus and the climate crisis, which has led it to register, since the 2013-2014 cycle, its historical minimums in grain production. Coffee is the main agricultural export product of this Central American country.

With information from EFE.

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