DOCAzores
production attested, no FAOSTAT seriesDocumentary reference pointDocumentary reference point: a production attested by one source, with no FAOSTAT series and no ICO membership. Region: Europe.
The Azores produce coffee without appearing in the FAOSTAT series for green coffee or among the members of the ICO. This page places it on the map with the source that attests it, without inventing a sector for it.
Production is reported only by the press or by a single actor: this reference point says that something exists, not how much.
- Geographic status
- territory
- Affiliation
- Portugal (autonomous region; coffee from Fajã dos Vimes, São Jorge, and other islands)
- Level of evidence
- low
- In the FAOSTAT series
- no, over the last ten years
- ICO exporting member
- no
Confirmed coverage: a production attested, at a low level.
History
This reference point has no series: it exists only through the source cited below.
Today
O Açoriano Oriental, November 30, 2023: the Azores Coffee Producers Association has more than 70 members on eight islands, and the regional government says it wants to promote the sector. No published regional volume found; a tourism website gives the Nunes family plantation (São Jorge) more than 1,000 kg of cherries a year (not opened), and the regional government mentions 0.14 ha declared against 1.5 ha estimated (not opened).
https://www.acorianooriental.pt/noticia/government-wants-to-enhance-coffee-s-potential-in-Gray areas
- No annual series: impossible to say whether production is rising or falling.
- The source often describes a single farm or association, not a whole territory.