Bujumbura, Burundi - Some 24,000 tons of green coffee, worth US$ 72 million, was produced in 2010 in Burundi, PANA learnt from official sources in Bujumbura. According to the Director General of the Regulating Authority of Coffee Industry (ARFIC), Evariste Ngayempore, initial estimates were about 31,000 tons but this was impeded by a plant disease (anthracnose) which severely hit coffee growing regions in the northern part of the country. The production was better in 2008, reaching 28,000 tons, against just a little over 8,600 tons in 2007.
“It is even in the nature of this plant that usually alternates good and bad seasons,' he told a press conference on the performance of the coffee sector from which Burundi derives most of its hard currencies in the export.
The other cause for satisfaction in coffee-growing areas in Burundi is that world prices are currently at the right level.
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