Between 450 and 500 small-scale coffee growers are evaluating the impact on their crops from the eruption this week of the country's so-called Volcano of Fire, a coffee leader said on Thursday.
Guatemala's Volcano of Fire belched ash and lava this week and rained debris on nearby villages. Various explosions sent up columns of ash 500 feet (150 metres) high and caused two lava flows.
The crop surveys, largely on the slopes of the neighbouring Acatenango volcano, were being carried out by the Federation of Farm Co-operatives of Coffee Growers of Guatemala, known as Fedecocagua.
Spokesmen from the bigger and more influential Anacafe growers' group were not available for comment.
"It will not be until next week that we have a more precise report about the impact of the volcanic activity on the coffee farms in the region," Fedecocagua president Gerardo de Leon told Reuters.
Fedecocagua's growers produce around 20 percent of Guatemala's exportable coffee.
Activity at the volcano dropped on Thursday after two days of intense movements.
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