TEGUCIGALPA: Coffee exports from Honduras, Central America's top producer, dipped by 1 percent during the 2017/2018 harvesting season, the national coffee institute IHCAFE said on Monday.
Honduran exporters shipped a total of 7.21 million 60-kg bags in the season.
Shipments rose 30 percent in September, the last month of the harvest, compared to the same month last year to reach 301,634 bags, according to IHCAFE data.
Honduras expects to export 8.1 million bags in the 2018/2019 season, which would mark an increase of 13 percent, as new farms start producing, IHCAFE officials said.
The coffee season in Central America and Mexico, which together produce about a fifth of the world's arabica beans, runs from October through September.
Earlier on Monday, Costa Rica's coffee institute, ICAFE, reported coffee exports rose by 9.7 percent for the cycle that ended last month.
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