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Colombia Picks Main Harvest Amid Production Drop of Up to 40%

By: Diana Delgado, Contractor

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Colombia Picks Main Harvest Amid Production Drop of Up to 40%
 

Bogota (Coffee Network) – Colombia is harvesting its main crop, but coffee growers, exporters and regional offices of the national coffee growers federation report that output is falling sharply—ranging from 20% to as much as 40%.

The main harvest for the October–December period is expected to come in lower than usual, keeping Colombia from matching the 13.9 million bags produced in 2024 and delaying efforts to return to historical output levels of 14 million bags.

Coffee grower and exporter Gustavo Benítez, who lives in Risaralda and buys coffee in Santander, the Caribbean region and the central provinces of Quindío, Risaralda and Caldas, said producers in the Caribbean region have already completed their main harvest. In Risaralda, where he sources coffee in 14 municipalities, output fell by about 40%.

Álvaro Jaramillo, director of the coffee growers federation in Antioquia—Colombia’s second-largest producing region—said growers in southeastern Antioquia are reporting declines of 30–40% and in some cases up to 50%.

“In the southeast, the reduction is significant, with some growers reporting drops of 30–40% and even 50%,” he said.

Antioquia is expected to harvest 1.8 million 60-kg bags in calendar year 2025, down from 2 million bags in 2024. The department has 110,500 hectares planted with coffee and 74,824 growers, with an average farm size of 1.47 hectares.

Benítez added that some growers in Santander are reporting they have run out of coffee entirely, while others in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia’s Caribbean region also say they have no remaining crop.

Colombia’s coffee production has fallen in recent years under the impact of torrential rains, which have hindered flowering and increased the prevalence of plant diseases. This year’s main harvest has also been hit by the La Niña weather phenomenon, which brought persistent rainfall, limited sunlight and damaged flowering in key producing regions. Analysts say 2025 has been wetter than previous years.

In the 12 months through October, Colombia produced 14.73mn 60kg bags, up 14% from the 12.94mn bags harvested a year earlier. But growers expect output to fall year-on-year in November, December and even January.

Heavy rains from late last year through June delayed the mitaca (secondary harvest) and damaged flowering for the main crop harvested in the final quarter of the year.

Colombia’s 2025–2026 coffee production will be lower as persistent rainfall across coffee regions continues to disrupt flowering, according to German Bahamón, general manager of the coffee growers federation. Asked whether he agrees with the USDA’s 2025/2026 forecast of 12.5mn bags, Bahamón said production is likely to come in higher, although he declined to provide a figure for the second half of 2025.

A weather insurance program has disbursed COP 17.883bn ($4.7mn) to coffee producers in Caldas and Risaralda in the first half of 2025 due to extreme weather events. Seguros Bolívar’s Café Seguro program benefits more than 8,000 growers and is part of a collaborative effort with Nespresso, second-tier bank Finagro, Local Partners, Blue Marble and coffee cooperatives in Norte de Caldas, Alto Occidente, Aguadas, Anserma and Manizales.

By Diana Delgado

 

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