HONDURAS
Honduras, the leading coffee producer in Central America, was among the most severely damaged coffee countries during the height of the roya infestation.
In a new report INTL FCStone, a global financial services organzation specializing in commodities, documents the incredible tale of how growers there achieved yields of 18.8 bags per hectare to once again become the world’s sixth largest coffee exporter.
“After a devastating roya infestation, the country’s coffee crop was decimated,” says Alexis Rubinstein, senior editor with INTL FCStone Financial Inc.Incredible demand for the product and the development of disease resistant trees incented the country’s coffee growers to double down and Honduras again ranks first in Central America, third in Latin America, and sixth globally in coffee exports by volume.”
Honduras – The Great Coffee Comeback, is the latest in the “From the Farmer Series.” Download a copy