India’s coffee exports fell by 10 per cent to 1,49,426 tonnes in the first 5 months of the current fiscal, the Coffee Board of India has said.
The country had shipped 1,65,498 tonnes of the brew in the April-August period of the 2011-12 fiscal.
In terms of earnings, exports fell marginally to Rs 2,258.73 crore in April-August this fiscal from Rs 2,248.62 crore in the year-ago period.
In US Dollars, earnings declined by 12 per cent to $439.39 million from $501.41 million in the reviewed period.
In the first 11 months of the current coffee year, the exports were down by 7 per cent to 3,06,238 tonnes, compared to 3,28,867 tonnes in the October-August period of the 2010-11 coffee year (October-September).
For the January-August period of the current calendar year, the shipments fell by 5 per cent to 2,49,697 tonnes from 2,63,652 tonnes in the same period of 2011.
Exports of arabica variety of coffee rose to 49,187 tonnes in the January-August period of 2012 from 46,942 tonnes in the year-ago period, while that of robusta fell to 1.36 lakh tonnes from 1.50 lakh tonnes in the same period.
The country had exported a record 3.48 lakh tonnes of the brew worth Rs 4,888.30 crore in 2011-12, compared to 3.16 lakh tonnes worth Rs 3,674.98 crore in 2010-11.