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Despite the uptick, production for the year so far is down 4 percent from the first four months of last year, the federation said in a statement. The group has asked the government for aid for coffee-growers amid predictions for declining output in the first half of 2018.
Exports for April grew 3 percent to 920,992 bags.
The Andean country produced 14.2 million bags in 2017.