Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, 1954, Vol. 68 Since 1947-h8, distribution of coffee for world consumption has exceeded world production, and the excess of requirements over production has been satis fied from accumulated surpluses carried over at the end of each season. These carry-overs have been reduced at an average rate of million bags annually for the past 6 years. Carry-overs at the beginning of the l9h7-48 season were more than million bags; at the beginning of the current season, they were less than million bags. Total supplies, at a postwar peak of 52.h million bags in l9h8-h9, are estimated at h6.3 million bags for 1953-54. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.