El Salvador: Coffee Annual
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El Salvador’s coffee production is expected to reach 519,000 sixty-kg bags in marketing year (MY) 2020/21. The Salvadoran coffee sector continues to struggle mainly due to low international prices, climate change, continued coffee leaf rust, and a lack of a long-term strategy that has hindered investment at the farm level. The MY2021/22 crop is forecast to slightly rebound to 528,000 sixty-kg bags. The COVID-19 pandemic is also affecting the sector due to a reduction in farm worker availability to carry out post-harvest coffee berry picking and processing. The Government of El Salvador (GOES) has announced a coffee sector rescue program that is expected to renovate approximately 35,000 hectares, as well as re-structure debt and create a coffee research institute.
