Tanzania Sees Coffee Output at Six-Year High as Harvest Near End

Output may reach 65,000 tons in Africa’s 4th-biggest producer
Country has benefited from better weatht, high crop cycle

Coffee beans are cooled after roasting at Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, June 10, 2011. Prices for washed arabica coffee from Ethiopia rose by as much as 9.9 percent last week in trading on the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange.Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

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December 10, 2018 at 5:40 AM EST

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Tanzania expects to harvest the most coffee in six years as better weather and a high crop cycle boosts output in Africa’s fourth-largest producer.

Output for the season that ends next June may climb 51 percent to reach an April forecast of 65,000 tons, Kajiru Kissenge, acting director of coffee development and operations at the Tanzania Coffee Board, said Monday by phone from Moshi, in the north of the country.

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