DOCCanary Islands
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 Canary Islands produce coffee without appearing in the FAOSTAT green coffee series or among the ICO members. This page puts them on the map with the source that attests to it, without inventing an industry for them.
Production is reported by a serious but unofficial source, or by a FAOSTAT series closed long ago.
- Geographic status
- territory
- Affiliation
- Spain (autonomous community; coffee from the Agaete valley, Gran Canaria)
- Level of evidence
- medium
- In the FAOSTAT series
- no, over the last ten years
- ICO exporting member
- no
Confirmed coverage: a production attested, at a medium level.
History
This reference point has no series: it exists only through the source cited below.
Today
Que.es, May 28, 2020: Agaete harvests more than 8,000 kg of coffee a year (range of 8,000 to 10,000 kg), 25,000 plants on 15 ha, about fifty producers, according to the president of Agroagaete. Perfect Daily Grind, September 7, 2022, gives 4,000 to 5,000 kg a year: the two figures contradict each other. FAOSTAT, Spain row: 5 t in 1961, 14 t at the 1989 peak, 5 t in 1994 (official figures, flag A), no value afterwards.
https://www.que.es/2020/05/28/el-cabildo-entrega-5-000-cafetos-para-aumentar-la-superficieGray 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.