MANAGUA: Nicaraguan coffee exports rose 4.6 percent in July from the same month a year earlier, the country's coffee export center Cetrex said on Monday.

Exports from the Central American country rose to 198,358 60-kg bags.

So far during the current season, which began in October and will end in September, Nicaragua has shipped 1.685 million 60-kg bags, 5.2 percent higher than the same period last year.

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