Colombia coffee output down 20 pct in April to 834,000 bags

BOGOTA: Colombia produced 834,000 60-kg bags of washed arabica coffee in April, down 20 percent from the same month a year earlier, the National Coffee Growers' Federation said on Friday.

Exports for April totaled 936,000 bags, up 1 percent compared to the same month in 2016.

Though production and exports in 2016 were battered by a 45-day truckers' strike as well as damage to many coffee trees from the El Ni?o weather phenomenon, the Andean country recorded total output of 14.23 million bags.