en.Wedoany.com Reported - Germán Bahamón, General Manager of the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (Federación Nacional de Cafeteros), presented the coffee production situation for the first half of 2026. From January to June this year, Colombia's coffee production reached 5.57 million bags, a 10% decrease compared to 6.21 million bags in the same period of 2025.

In June alone, coffee production was 1.3 million bags, higher than the 909,000 bags in the same month last year, an increase of 43%, making it the month with the highest production in the first half of the year, but it failed to reverse the overall downward trend. Compared to April 2026 (the lowest point in the first half, with production of 697,000 bags), production in June increased by 607,000 bags.

Germán Bahamón stated: "The main concern of coffee-growing families is the significant appreciation of the Colombian peso, its impact on producers' income, and the weakening of export capacity." Regarding the performance of the second quarter, Bahamón explained that production in this quarter increased by 26% compared to the same period in 2025, due to "rainfall patterns affecting large coffee-growing areas of the country, causing a delay in fruit ripening." Coffee production from April to June this year was 3.06 million bags, compared to 2.43 million bags in the same period of 2025. Total production over the past 12 months was 13.04 million bags, a year-on-year decrease of 9%.

In the trade sector, coffee exports in the first half of 2026 totaled 5.23 million bags, a year-on-year decrease of 18%. Coffee exports from January to June accounted for 22.8% of Colombia's total export value during the same period. On the import side, coffee imports in the first half of the year were 1.57 million bags, while domestic consumption reached 2.31 million bags.