Nicaragua's coffee output for the 2014/2015 harvest could reach 1.61 million 60-kg bags, up more than 7 percent from last season due to better control of the tree-killing fungus roya, national coffee council Conacafe said on Friday. Lower rainfall, as well as better plantation management has helped coffee farmers contain the roya outbreak, said Conacafe head Juan Ramon Obregon.
"Last year's harvest came in around 1.5 million bags... and this year we expect to be a bit above that, maybe 1.61 million bags," said Obregon. He added that roya, also known as coffee leaf rust, "is not a problem at the moment" for the country's coffee farmers. Over the past couple seasons, an outbreak of roya in Mexico and each of Central America's five major coffee-producing nations has reduced yields and export revenues across the region. The coffee season in Central America and Mexico, which together produce about one-fifth of the world's arabica beans, runs from October through September.
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