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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 9

urge Coffee Crop

p. 123 · Read in the full issue

Predicted

E United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation head luarters in Rome estimates that world coffee crop for the -57 season will reach a new 'd. r statistical purposes the coffee ends on September 30. The for the current year is icted at 870,000 metric tons, compares with 847,000 tons in 56, and 804,000 tons in 1954-55.

Ins For World Coffee

Council

presentatiyes of the main b producing and consuming tries in the Americas were mg in Washington, DC, in nary, to continue discussions possibility of establishing a d Coffee Council which these tries first suggested a year ago. e conference was to work out ; ailed plan for presentation to an and other coffee-producing tries. e proposed Council would ol the production and market of the main world crop to the long-range advantage of all srned.