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World production of coffee in 1999/00 is forecast at 104.5 million bags (60 kilograms or 132.276 pounds), 2 percent below the previous year's record coffee crop. Brazil's coffee production for 1999/00 is forecast at 26.5 million bags, down 26 percent from last year's record. Total coffee exports from Brazil are forecast to decline by 20 percent from 1998/99 to 1999/00, mainly as a result of lower supplies. Brazil's exports of coffee in 1999/00 are forecast at 17.8 million bags, 16.0 million bags of green coffee and 1.8 million bags of soluble coffee. However, mainly as a result of higher exports from other key producing countries, total world exports of coffee in 1999/00 are forecast at 82.4 million bags, up 1 percent from the estimated 1998/99 level of 81.5 million bags. Some key upward changes in year-to-year exports include: Cote d'Ivoire, 1.5 million bags; Ecuador, 803,000 bags; Vietnam, 700,000 bags; El Salvador, 504,000 bags; Ethiopia, 500,000 bags; Mexico, 430,000 bags; India, 350,000 bags; and Honduras, 325,000 bags.

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