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Coffee exports increased 59.31 per cent in the 2010-11 financial year to 3.25 lakh tonnes compared with previous financial year's exports of 2.04 lakh tonnes.
Coffee exports in rupee terms were also up 75 per cent at Rs 3,789.03 crore against Rs 2,165.12 crore during the review period. In dollar terms, it is up 83.31 per cent at $811.09 million against $442.45 million. However, in terms of unit value realisation coffee fetched Rs 1,16,543 a tonne against last year's realisation of Rs 1,06,119 a tonne.
According to Coffee Board, exports between January 1 and March 30 were: arabica parchment constituted 20,832 tonnes (last year's exports stood at 12,677 tonnes), exports of arabica cherry was 5,449 tonnes (3,918 tonnes), robusta parchment 7,386 tonnes (5,344 tonnes) and robusta cherry 45,482 tonnes (27,300 tonnes).
Indian instant coffee total exports 12,721 (5,581 tonnes), instant coffee re-exports 12,346 tonnes (15,577 tonnes).
Top 10 export houses
Acording to the Coffee Board data, following are top 10 exporters: Amalgamated Bean Coffee total exports 12,114.1 tonnes (arabica 6,284.6 tonnes, robusta 5,829.5 tonnes). CCL Products-India (only robusta 9,087.6 tonnes). NKG Jayanti Coffee 8,605.9 tonnes (arabica 2,947.1 tonnes, robusta 5,658.8 tonnes). Allanasons Ltd 8,026.1 tonnes (arabica 2,489.8 tonnes, robusta 5,536.3 tonnes). Bola Surendra Kamath & Co 7,461.3 tonnes (arabica 2,697 tonnes, robusta 4,764.3 tonnes). Olam Agro India 6,944.7 tonnes (arabica 2,317.6 tonnes robusta 4,627.1 tonnes). ITC Ltd 6,151.1 tonnes (arabica 1,613.8 tonnes, robusta 4,537.3 tonnes). Ned Commodities India 6,027.2 tonnes (arabica 962.4 tonnes robusta 5,064.8 tonnes). Tata Coffee 5,437 tonnes (arabica 308.7 tonnes, robusta 5,128.3 tonnes). ECom Gill Coffee Trading 4,540.3 tonnes (arabica 925.9 tonnes, robusta 3,614.4 tonnes).
Top importing countries
Italy 25,230.9 tonnes (arabica 6,369.3 tonnes, robusta 18,861.6 tonnes). Germany 14,927.1 tonnes (arabica 10,622.8 tonnes, robusta 4,304.3 tonnes). Belgium 10,445.4 tonnes (arabica 2,357.6 tonnes, robusta 8,087.8 tonnes). Russian Federation 8,560.5 tonnes (arabica 106.1 tonnes, robusta 8,454.4 tonnes). Spain 3,865.2 tonnes (arabica 212.8 tonnes, robusta 3,652.4 tonnes). US 1,989.6 tonnes (arabica 600.1 tonnes, robusta 1,389.5 tonnes).
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