San Salvador, Oct. 24 - El Salvador will grow 18.4 percent more coffee in the 2007/08 coffee harvest than in the previous cycle as more loans for farmers boost productivity, private coffee group Procafe said on Wednesday.
El Salvador will produce 1.575 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the harvest, which started Oct. 1, compared with 1.33 million bags in the 2006/07 cycle, Procafe president Mario Acosta told Reuters.
Procafe had previously forecast a 13.5 percent increase in the current harvest in a preliminary report.
Acosta said the increase would come from higher productivity and not an expansion in coffee growing area.