肯尼亚咖啡年度报告2012.pdfVIP

THIS REPORT CONTAINS ASSESSMENTS OF COMMODITY AND TRADE ISSUES MADE BY USDA STAFF AND NOT NECESSARILY STATEMENTS OF OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY Required Report - public distribution Date: 5/15/2012 GAIN Report Number: Kenya Coffee Annual Kenya Coffee Annual Report Approved By: Stephen Hammond Prepared By: FAS/Nairobi Staff Report Highlights: Record-and-near record world prices last marketing year (MY) and in recent months have increased interest in producing and exporting high-quality Kenyan coffee. In response to the prices, Kenyan coffee farmers will likely: increase inputs; improve coffee production management that will permit exports of 725 thousand 60 kilogram bags (TKB) and 800 TKB during MY 2012 and 2013, respectively; and, invest in new, higher yielding and more disease-resistant coffee seedlings to increase long-term export viability. Executive Summary: Kenyan AA coffee beans continue to play an important role in the European market. Kenyan coffee traders will export a majority of Kenya’s coffee to Europe where Kenyan AAs benefit from a small niche market in the premium retail trade but reportedly, play a much more important role in blending to improve the general quality of retail coffee. Some analysts in the local market look at the blending currently done in Europe as a potential opportunity to add value locally. For instance, Kenyans might blend Ugandan or Tanzania Robusta beans with Kenyan AA Arabica beans to produce a coffee that meets European quality standards while creating employment and value locally. Kenyan producers indicate that on average it costs them about $4,000 to produce a ton of coffee beans. During the record prices of MY 2012, Kenyan coffee producers received on average about $5,500 per ton; reportedly producing a much-needed economic gain that