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Sharp fall in coffee revenue

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    Burundi's coffee revenues fell sharply in the 1998/99 season to under US $30 million from US $55 million in the previous season, the national coffee agency OCIBU said, according to Reuters. The news agency quoted Burundi's Presidential Economics Adviser Damas Ntiranyibagira who forecast a further fall in coffee output this year. "The weather was bad at the beginning of the year and I think production will be less than we had this year," Ntiranyibagira said. Coffee is Burundi's main export and a Burundian journalist told IRIN that unless foreign aid started arriving in the country, a fall in coffee revenue would be a serious blow to the economy.

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