Ecuador: Coffee Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   EC2022-0008

Coffee production for marketing year (MY) 2022/23 (April to March) is forecast at 354,000 60-kg bags of Green Bean Equivalent (GBE) basis, an increase of 36 percent over the MY 2021/2022 estimate of 261,000 60-kg bags, due an increase in expected area harvested and improved pruning techniques. Despite continued government and private sector efforts to recover national coffee production, planted area in MY 2022/2023 is expected to remain at 60,000 hectares. Exports are expected to increase to 527,000 60-kg bags after a reduction in exports the previous year.

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