By Thomas Kutty Abraham
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee output in India, Asia's
third-biggest exporter of the commodity, may fall because of
damage from excessive rainfall ahead of the harvest, likely
worsening a global shortage forecast next year.
Production in the year starting Oct. 1 may be at least 15
percent below the 291,000 metric tons forecast by the state-run
Coffee Board in July, said N. Bose Mandanna, a grower and former
vice chairman of the board.
Reduced output in India may add to the global shortage of
the robusta bean, supporting prices that have risen 14 percent
in the past year. The International Coffee Organization expects
a coffee deficit of 8 million bags next season. A bag weighs 132
pounds, or 60 kilograms.
``I expect robusta output to be at least 20 percent lower
as large areas were damaged because of the rains,'' Mandanna
said in a telephone interview from Madikeri in southern India.
Heavy rain has caused fruits and leaves to drop, he said.
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