The world's top coffee producer Brasil is set to reap a large crop of mostly arabica beans which the government crop agency has estimated at upwards of 46 million 60-kg bags and which most industry players believe will reach or surpass 50 million.

Mexico sugar cane growers said on Sunday that they expect the harvest for 2009/10 to come in slightly higher than previously thought.The association of sugar cane growers revised its expectation for the present harvest from 4.8 million tonnes to roughly 4.9 million tonnes, it said in a statement.

Coconut oil on the European vegetable oils market rallied on Friday with talk of tight copra supplies after news that coconut oil exports tripled in March, market sources said.Coconut oil was offered $30 a tonne up from Thursday after June/July traded at $960 and $965 a tonne cif Rotterdam while palmkernel oil was offered barely changed with May/June changing hands at $1005 a tonne cif Rotterdam.

North American cocoa bean grindings revealed a double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2010, the first gain since 2008, according to the latest statistics released from the National Confectioners Association (NCA). Cocoa grinding data is an indicator of demand from industry, with the product being used by manufacturers to create what are known as cocoa ‘semi-finished’ products: Cocoa butter, cocoa powder and cocoa liquor.