Nicaraguan coffee exports increase

Nicaraguan coffee exports percolate in first two months of harvest

Nicaraguan coffee exports are up 46.6% during the first two months of the 2007-08 harvest in relation to the same period last year, according to the government's Export Processing Center (Cetrex).

Coffee exports from last October and November, the first two months of this year's harvest, totaled $23.4 million, compared to $15.9 million from October and November of the 2006-07 harvest, Cetrex reported.

The increase is being attributed to a rise in international coffee prices as well as greater productivity.

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