India’s exports of coffee reached a new high of $1.126 billion for the fiscal year that ends in March 2023 due to a rise in worldwide prices. The exports exceeded the Commerce Ministry’s fixed target of $1.088 billion, up by approximately a tenth in dollar value terms from the previous year’s $1.027 billion. In fact,…
After a pause of nearly two years, premiums for Indian robusta parchment coffee have risen and now exceed $1,000 per tonne over London terminal prices. This is primarily due to producers holding back their supply in anticipation of higher pricing and a lower than expected production of robusta parchment. Pricing differences for the Indian robusta…
Over the past few days, raw coffee prices have increased, bringing some respite to struggling growers. As a result, rather than selling their beans “outright,” the bulk of growers are turning to “consignment sales.”Growers are holding their products with coffee curers through consignment sales in anticipation of future price increases. Stakeholders claimed that the crop…
The Coffee Board reduced its most recent post-monsoon estimate of the amount of the coffee crop for the 2022–23 season (October 2022–September 2023) to 3.6 lakh tonnes (lt). This is roughly 8.36% less than its previous projections of a record 3.93 lt. This is mostly because excessive monsoon rains in Karnataka, the State with the…
As prices fluctuate during the current harvest, struggling coffee growers believe that now is the ideal time for the Center to strengthen the only multi-state co-operative Coffee Marketing Co-operative Ltd (COMARK) by providing financial support to the growers’ organization to engage in market intervention activities. Farm gate coffee prices have decreased by approximately a fifth…
Growers are reluctant to sell their products at the current pricing as farmgate prices for arabica coffee have dropped by a fifth over the past two months. Growers are currently harvesting the premium and mild types in important producing regions of Karnataka, the State with the highest production, adding to their troubles as a result…
The National Commodity and Derivative Exchanges (NCDEX) has invited farmer producer organizations (FPOs) to use the platform in order to hedge price risks as deliveries from futures contracts of robusta cherry AB coffee type will resume in February of next year. The major commodity exchange has introduced futures contracts for the period of February through…
India’s coffee output for the new 2022-23 crop year, starting October is heading for a new record provided the weather supports the crop for the rest of the calendar year. The Coffee Board, in its early production estimates also known as post-blossom estimates, has pegged the 2022-23 crop at 3.93 lakh tonnes on favorable weather…
The National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), the country’s biggest agriculture commodity exchange, is contracting a major comeback with plans to launch futures trading in Coffee and PVC (polyvinyl chloride). This is part of its plan to launch new contracts in commodities that are not price sensitive. The exchange is also planning to initiate Liquidity…
