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Retail coffee prices will remain high at least until the next crop is harvested and available on the market – they will strengthen between June and July. On the other hand, producers are also receiving more for their product, which will make it possible to partially offset the losses that have been accumulating in recent cycles.
Retail research carried out periodically by the Paraná Department of Rural Economy (Deral) shows that in 2024 the price of coffee in the Paraná market increased by 50%. In December 2023, the average price per kilo was R$13,59. A year later, it was R$20,33.
The first surveys for 2025 indicate that the upward trend has not stopped. Ten packages are costing R$230,22 wholesale. Even if this is passed on to the consumer without profit, it is already 10% higher than the prices charged at the end of last year.
Paraná's production alone is not capable of reversing this situation, as it offers less than 2% of the Brazilian volume. However, the forecast is that the good flowering and good development observed will lead to a production of 42,7 thousand tons on the 25,5 thousand hectares, which would be 6% higher than the 40,4 thousand tons in 2024.
For producers, the price recovery is a relief. A 60-kilo bag of processed coffee is priced at R$2.190,00. This value is 11% higher than the average paid in December (R$1.975,26) and 153% higher than the R$866,15 paid in January last year.
“Despite the good moment experienced by producers, it is important to remember that they have lived through difficult years before this one, largely responsible for the 44% decline in the area in the last ten years, going from 45,6 thousand hectares to the current 25,5 thousand”, pondered Carlos Hugo Godinho, culture analyst at Deral.
Soybean – the beginning of the soybean harvest, which reached 2% of the approximately 5,8 million hectares cultivated in this cycle in Paraná. Weather conditions have been unfavorable for the development of crops in important producing regions, such as the West and Southwest.
At least until the next harvest estimate, to be released by Deral at the end of this month, the forecast is 22,2 million tons. Currently, 83% of the area is well developed, 15% is in average condition and the remainder is considered poor.
Bean – the bean harvest is progressing well, with the product being harvested from at least 74% of the 169-hectare area. This area is 57% higher than the 107,8 hectares of the first harvest last year. Some regions have shown above-average productivity, promising that this will be a recovery harvest.
The estimate is that more than 300 thousand tons will be harvested, or almost double the 160,4 thousand tons of the summer of 2024. The prospect of large production has put pressure on prices, which are 48% lower than in January 2024, going from R$ 329,53 to R$ 170,82 per bag of black beans, which predominate in the State.
Fruits – of the more than US$1,3 billion in revenue and almost 1,1 million tons of fruit exported in 2024, mangoes, lemons, limes, melons, grapes, walnuts and chestnuts led the way, accounting for 68,9% of quantities and 70,6% of capital. They were purchased by 138 countries.
On the other hand, Brazil imported 748,8 thousand tons of fruit at a cost of just over US$ 1,1 billion. Apples, pears, walnuts, chestnuts, kiwis and grapes represented 66,1% in value and 68,4% in volume among the 30 different species that arrived in the country, brought from 66 suppliers.
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