World Bank says coffee, tea prices to fall this year

A farmer plucks ripe coffee berries from his farm. FILE PHOTO | BENSON MOMANYI | NMG

Coffee, tea and cocoa prices could fall by more than six per cent this year due to greater supply, a report says. The World Bank report, however, also projects that agricultural raw materials production is expected to rise by four per cent. 

According to the World Bank’s Commodity Markets Outlook, returns from the three beverages are forecast to decline this year “due to greater-than-expected supply.” Coffee prices have been rising over the past year but started to fall late last month.

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