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BANGALORE: The 1 morning time when
Arabica java agriculturists make not desire rainfall at all is on the twenty-four hours when the buds
blossom since the pollen grains acquire washed away and the procedure of fertilisation
and fructification into edible beans acquires pre-empted. The buds blossomed
this Saturday morning time in Mysore which accounts for almost 75% of
India’s Arabica crop. And it rained. Mysore grew 60,000 metric tons of
India’s 2007-08 Arabica harvest of 82,000 tonnes. The approaching 2008-09, Arabica
crop (harvesting gets November) was expected to be 100,000 metric ton before
Saturday’s rains. This morning’s heavy rainfalls in almost
all pockets of the coffee- growing heartland of Mysore have got project a dampener
on the temper of not just growers, but of the trade goods board functionaries who
meticulously supervise the advancement of the harvest at important stages. The
only economy saving grace is that 30% of the 2008-09 Arabica harvest blossomed in February. However, the remaining 70% of the Arabica harvest is blossoming over a time period of
three sequent days, starting from Saturday. Nearly 25% of this 70% (over 17%
of Karnataka’s Arabica crop) blossomed on Saturday. Lord'S Day is the chief
blossoming twenty-four hours for 50% of the 70% (35% of Karnataka’s Arabica crop) and
the anticipations are of heavy rain. Coffee Board president GV Krishna
Rau said: “That it rained this morning time in almost all Arabica-growing
pockets in Mysore is a cause for concern. It will be a substance of serious
concern if this morn-ing’s form of heavy rainfall is repeated tomorrow. It
will take a few years for us to gauge the extent of the impact.” The
coming 2008-09 harvest was expected to be better than the former Arabica crop
which dropped to 82,000 metric tons from an initial estimation of 100,000 because of
past year’s heavy monsoon rains. Saturday’s dampener
comes in the aftermath of farm-gate terms in Republic Of India dropping between March 1 and
March 21 by 17% for Arabica (from Rs 5,600 for a 50-kg bag to Rs 4,600) and by
around 15% for Robusta (from Rs 99 a kilogram to Rs 84). Farm-gate prices for Arabica
are impacted by the former day’s shutting on the New-York based Inter
Continental Exchange (ICE) where Arabica Parchment May hereafters slumped by over
23% from 172 cents a pound-weight on February 29 to 128 cents on Thursday, March
20 (ICE was closed on March 21 for Good Friday). Farm-gate prices
for Robusta are impacted by the former day’s stopping point on the Euronext Liffe
where Robusta Cherry May hereafters slumped by 18% from $2,800 a metric ton on February
29 to $2,300 on March 20. Ex-porter Milan Shah properties the slack in coffee
prices to the “generation of alpha” factor: “The
same finances which moved into trade goodss after the collapse of the financial
markets are now moving into other investing options where the tax return is
higher.” Coffee Exporters Association president Ramesh Raja sees this as
part of a tendency where the finances are profit-taking by liquidating commodity
in-vestments.