Honduras Coffee Growers Face Escalating Woes After Hurricanes
- Widespread road, bridge damage reported; workers battle virus
- Coffee prices surged 18% last month amid storm damage
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Coffee-crop losses in Honduras, Central America’s top producer and exporter, may increase to almost 10% after hurricanes damaged vast stretches of the country’s infrastructure, an industry group said.
“The biggest risk we have now is how long the authorities will take to repair access to the coffee regions,” Miguel Pon, executive director of Adecafeh, the top export association, said in an email. “It’s estimated that more than 15% of the coffee-road grids were affected, and if in 30 days they are not fixed, we could lose another 460,000 bags.”