IN SHORT: Brazil's fine coffee exports climbing fast

11 Dec, 2011

Brazil's exports of fine coffees will rise to almost one third of arabica shipments in 2011, the exporter association said on Monday, reflecting the higher profits to be made from producing superior beans.Shipments of specialty coffees will reach 7 million 60-kg bags by the end of this year, up sharply from just 1 million in 2005, Guilherme Braga, the director of Brazil's Council of Green Coffee Exporters, Cecafe, told Reuters.

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