This year the national coffee market will have 450,000 quintals of coffee more than last year as a result of the vast replanting of coffee plantations that involved the introduction of coffee varieties that resist the damaging coffee rust virus.
According to the president of the Dominican Coffee Confederation, Ricardo Lespin, over the last six years more than 1,000,000 ha of coffee plantation have been renewed with some 45 varieties of coffee plants that are resistant to the rust. Lespin said: “Starting this year good-quality coffee will be produced here.”
He stressed that this increase in coffee production is the result of the program for promotion and renovation initiated by the old Dominican Coffee Council, which is now the Dominican Coffee Institute and that began with 69,800 ha of coffee in 2016 and 13.5 million coffee plants. Coffee drinkers can expect a much better cup of coffee in the coming months.
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El Dia
1 March 2018
