El Salvador coffee production outlook 2016 : Despite many earlier private industry forecasts for flat coffee production for the forthcoming new crop in El Salvador, the countries agricultural ministry and coffee authorities are forecasting an 8% increase for the countries new November 2015 to February 2016 harvest. They foresee however that it shall remain a relatively modest crop in terms of regional Mexican and Central American production, at their forecasted level of 765,133 bags.
In this report they make mention that following active and state sponsored steps that have been taken to counter the negative effects of Roya or Leaf Rust, that only 6% of the approximate 133,836 hectares of coffee farm land in El Salvador are still fighting this infestation. Thus it would seem that the country has the problems of Roya firmly under control, while many farms have since replanted their fields with new Roya resistant coffee varieties.
In this report they make mention that following active and state sponsored steps that have been taken to counter the negative effects of Roya or Leaf Rust, that only 6% of the approximate 133,836 hectares of coffee farm land in El Salvador are still fighting this infestation. Thus it would seem that the country has the problems of Roya firmly under control, while many farms have since replanted their fields with new Roya resistant coffee varieties.
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