Production of coffee in a top African coffee grower will suffer a reduction as much as 27 percent through June of next year due to drought conditions, according to the nation's coffee board.
Bloomberg reports Tanzania's marketing production will be as high as 45,000 tons in 2012. This year's totals hardly exceeded 55,000 tons, according to Adolph Kumburu, director general of the agency.
The slippage will be "due to drought reports from growing regions," Kumburu said in an email.
This isn't the first time commodity production in Tanzania has suffered from inclement weather. From December 2009 to March 2010, Tanzania's coffee, tea and lint cotton crops slipped because of drought.
Located in East Africa, Tanzania increased its planting to increase coffee production to 100,000 tons by 2015, Kumburu said in February. Western Tanzania grows robusta and Arabica and Arabica grows in the north and the south. Arabica beans are 75 percent of Tanzania's production and robusta beans are 25 percent.
Ethiopia, Uganda and the Ivory Coast also top coffee producers in Africa. Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific also is a major coffee grower.
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