Coffee harvest in Brazil is bigger and better

Whatever the forecast for the crop of Arabica coffee from Brazil, there is no doubt that the harvest will be great and will have larger screens with grains, as well as the quality will probably be excellent with the La Niña climatic phenomenon going into action.
On a recent trip from Reuters by the heart of Brazil''s coffee production, along the border between São Paulo and Minas Gerais, the two main producing States of the country''s Arabica, agronomists said the farms are fully recovered from two years of drought. The trees were laden with large grains in process of ripening, with low incidence of diseases and pests. "The volume of the crop is no longer at risk. Is large and time won''t change much the size, "said the Economist from the Cooxupé, Brazil''s largest coffee cooperative, Leke.
Fidelis said trees in Guaxupé, a mountainous region in the South of Minas Gerais, a State that produces 75% of Arabica coffee from Brazil, were holding a normal distribution of large grains, usually sorted by sieve sizes 17 or higher, preferred by roasters in Italy and in Germany.
In the past two harvests, the damage arising from the hot and dry weather resulted in lower grain.
"This will be the first year in the last three in which larger grains will be more than 30% of the harvest," said agronomist Coopinhal, Ezelino Tessarini.
Productivity in the 2000 acres around the cooperative will improve 23% before 2015, to 28 to 30 bags per hectare, said Tessarini, in Espírito Santo do Pinhal (SP).
Meteorologists predict a shift to longer dry in the coffee belt before the harvest, which should take at least another month.