Coffee exports up 56% in 2010 .

Coffee exports increased 56.45 per cent this calendar (January to December) 2010 to 2.91 lakh tonnes compared with previous year's (2009) exports of 1.86 lakh tonnes.

According to Coffee Board statistics as of December 30, arabica parchment constituted 38,300 tonnes (last year's exports stood at 19,992 tonnes), exports of arabica cherry was 12,763 tonnes (9,739 tonnes), robusta parchment 32,491 tonnes (14,635 tonnes) and robusta cherry 1,24,363 tonnes (81,510 tonnes).

Instant coffee total exports 83,703 (60,575 tonnes), Instant coffee (Indian) 38,371 tonnes (25,605 tonnes) Instant coffee re-exports 45,332 tonnes (34,970 tonnes).

Key reason

The main reason attributed for high exports is availability of good qualitywashed arabicas and robusta parchment for exports.

“In addition to this, the good margins offered in 2010 for exports facilitated exporters to perform well,” said a senior exporter, who did not wish to be identified. Also, another key factor is that of growers parted with their entire produce as they got good remunerative prices.

 Coffee exports in rupee terms were also up 50.69 per cent at Rs 3,010.87 crore in 2010 against Rs 1,998.02 crore in 2009. In dollar terms, it is up 58.54 per cent at $642.42 million against $405.20 million. However, in terms of unit value realisation Indian coffee fetched Rs 1,03,154 a tonne against last year's realisation of Rs 1,07,007 per tonne.

Top 10 coffee exporters

NKG Jayanti Coffee with total exports 38,896.2 tonnes (arabica 9,634.2 tonnes, robusta 29,262 tonnes) lead among the exporters, according to Coffee Board data. CCL Products-India only robusta 29,189.7 tonnes.

Amalgamated Bean Coffee 23,528.2 tonnes (arabica 6,335.5 tonnes, robusta 17,192.7 tonnes). Nestle India only robusta 20,202.5 tonnes. Tata Coffee 19,451.5 tonnes (arabica 1,051.3 tonnes,  robusta 18,400.2 tonnes). Olam Agro India 17,379.9 tonnes (arabica 6,477.7 tonnes robusta 10,902.2 tonnes).

Ned Commodities India 16,927.3 tonnes (arabica 801.8 tonnes robusta 16,125.5 tonnes). SLN Coffee 14,665 tonnes (arabica 1,058.7 tonnes, robusta 13,606.4 tonnes) and ITC Ltd 13,351.2 tonnes (arabica 2,040 tonnes, robusta 11,311.2 tonnes).


Source : thehindubusinessline.com