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Coffee production in MY 2014/15 is expected to decline by 30 percent compared to MY 2013/14, the largest year-to-year reduction and lowest production level in at least the past 15 years...

Colombian coffee production is expected to increase to 12.5 million bags (1 bag = 60 kilograms unless otherwise noted) green bean equivalent (GBE) in marketing year (MY) 2014/15...

After the past three years outbreak of “coffee leaf rust”, Guatemalan farmers are starting to recover production as replanted trees and pruned ones have entered full harvest.

El Salvador’s coffee production is expected to rebound to 624,000 sixty-kg bags in 2014/15 (October 2014 - September 2015), a 24 percent increase from the historically low 2013/2014 harvest.

ATO/Sao Paulo forecasts the Brazilian coffee production for Marketing Year (MY) 2015/16 (July-June) at 52.40 million 60-kg bags, up 2 percent relative to MY 2014/15.

Ecuador’s coffee production in marketing year 2015/16 (April/March) is forecast at 309,000 bags on a Green Bean Equivalent basis, up 17,000 bags or six percent compared to our MY 2014/15 estimate.

Central America and the Caribbean, with their close geographical and economic ties to the United States, have always been an important market for U.S. agricultural exports.

Brazilian coffee production for 2014/15 was revised upward to 51.2 million 60-kg bags, but still off 3.3 million bags from the previous year.

Colombian coffee production in marketing year (MY) 2014/15 is expected to increase to 12.3 million bags, slightly above Post’s estimate of 11.9 million bags in May 2014.

In 2008, El Salvador abolished the Planting Seed Law that required imported seeds to have a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the seeds did not contain GMOs.

As Mexico's organic industry grows, the government has issued new rules and requirements for organic certification.

Honduras ranks 1st in Central America, 3rd in Latin America, and 6th globally in coffee exports by volume.