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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 8

Be Higher

p. 161 · Read in the full issue

World Coffee Crop Will

Total world production of green coffee is estimated by the US Department of Agriculture to be up by 4.4 million bags to a new high of 50.1 million bags in the 1957-58 marketing season.

Exportable production is put at 41.5 million bags as compared with 35 million bags last season.

A considerable increase in production is estimated for South America, a large in crease for North America, but only very small increases in Africa and Asia.