El mercado de café en México

Abstract

Coffee is a crop of tropical climate, which occurs in developing countries, and is the main source for agricultural export and foreign exchange earnings after oil, and has great growth prospects in the international market. It is marketed in major markets of commodities and futures, especially on the New York Stock Exchange (Arabic numerals) and London (Robusta). Currently, the largest producers of coffee in the world are becoming its main consumers. Coffee consumption is growing rapidly in Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia, which in combination produce 60.0% of the grains in the world. It is anticipated that purchases of packaging coffee in Brazil amount to 1.03 million tons per year, surpassing the United States as the largest consumer of coffee in the world for the first time since at least 1999 (The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, Aug. 5 of 2014). The aim of the study was to analyze the behavior of the coffee market in Mexico. Coffee production in the country, he notes, has decreased over the past three decades due, among other things, the decline in the international price of aromatic, the drop in performance by the depletion of coffee trees, high costs faced by producers and the presence of pests such as rust, affecting the crop and that the ICO recognizes as "the worst affected since it made its appearance in Central America in the year 1976". The report emphasizes that "coffee production in Mexico has maintained a downward trend, along with exports, giving way to competing countries such as Vietnam, who in recent years has become the second largest producer and exporter (Agricultural Image, Jan. 19, 2015).