Indian Coffee exports in 2010-11 crop year crosses billion-dollar-mark

03 Oct 2011 Evaluate

Indian Coffee exports in 2010-11 crop year that ended on September 30 have made a remarkable achievement and for the first time breached the billion-dollar-mark in any crop year or financial year or calendar year. The coffee exports have increased 81 per cent in dollar terms to cross a billion to $1.046 billion against $577 million in the previous year. The growth was mainly driven by high prices in a weakening global economic environment and the incentives such as DEPB that boosted exports. The previous high was $798.78 million in financial year 2010-11.

In Rupee value terms, exports were up 74 per cent to Rs 4,788 crore against Rs 2,753 crore, while in volumes terms, coffee exports were up 33.2 per cent to 3.57 lakh tonnes (lt) against 2.68 lt in the previous year.

In the current financial year, exports from April till September grew 69 per cent to Rs 2,602 crore from Rs 1,537 crore in the corresponding last year.  In dollar terms, the growth was 76 per cent to $577 million from $327 million. In volumes, the exports for the first six months of current fiscal grew by a fourth to 1.91 (lt) from 1.53 (lt) in the previous year.

However, the exporters are concerned about the situation in Europe where the prospects remain bleak in view of the worsening financial crisis. Europe accounts for about 70 per cent of India's coffee exports, while Germany and the Russian Federation are the other two large markets.

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