Bogota, Sept 2 - Colombia plans to increase coffee production to 17 million 60-KG sacks by 2014, the government said Tuesday.
The effort will carry an initial cost of $724.5 million, Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias told reporters.
The Andean country produced 12.21 million sacks of coffee last year.
Colombia is the world's third biggest coffee producer after Brazil and Vietnam.