Thursday, July 5, 2007

Coffee Gains for Second Day on Forecast for Declining Robusta Supplies

(Bloomberg) -- Robusta coffee climbed for a second
day in London after Dow Jones reported that Indonesian supplies
have plunged and a forecast that production will drop next year.

Indonesian production and exports dropped by two-thirds in
the first six months of the year because of delays in the
harvest, Dow Jones reported today. The country is the world's
second-biggest grower of the bitter-tasting beans. Global output
may fall 9.2 percent in the next crop season, ending September
2008, commodity researcher F.O. Licht said yesterday.


Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News

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