Costa Rica 09-10 Coffee Crop Up 5% To 1.67M Bags

Costa Rica's coffee production in the next 2009-10 crop cycle, for which harvesting won't start until October, is forecast to rise 5% to 1,671,270 60-kilogram bags, the official Costa Rican Coffee Council, or Icafe, said Friday.

This compares to total production of 1,591,477 bags in Costa Rica's current 2008-09 cycle.

The crop cycle starts Oct. 1 and runs through Sep. 30 the following year but harvesting of the crop ended in April.

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