The National Committee for the Defense of Coffee Farming brought its claim to the National Assembly. The representation of coffee producers from Portuguesa, Lara, Trujillo, Mérida, Táchira, Monagas, Sucre, Anzoátegui, Barinas, and Yaracuy—states where practically all of the country’s coffee is grown—requested a formal review of the sector’s cost structures and support to set sustainable prices, after trading companies and middlemen imposed quotes unilaterally.
The argument is simple and devastating: with current prices, the producer does not cover what they spend. Fertilizers, crop-protection chemicals, fuel, freight, and labor costs have risen in a disproportionate way, while the value the coffee grower receives on the farm remains below the real cost of the production cycle.
📊 The currency trap that nobody mentions
There is a detail that the union bulletin does not address, but that every producer knows by heart: a good part of coffee inputs are bought with reference to the US dollar. A bag of fertilizer, an imported herbicide, or the shipping cost of a truck are not negotiated in inflation-adjusted bolívares; they are negotiated by looking at the exchange rate of the day, whether the official rate of the BCV or the parallel one.
On the other side of the balance sheet, the price of the grain is set by the buyer in bolívares. The result is a classic asymmetry of the Venezuelan economy: costs indexed to the dollar, incomes anchored to the bolívar. Every time the exchange-rate gap widens or the pace of depreciation accelerates, the coffee grower’s margin evaporates without the producer having sold even a pound less.
This dynamic explains why the sector has been dollarizing through the back door. It’s not about large bank transactions, but informal agreements among neighbors, town buyers, and cooperatives that are starting to take an interest in stablecoins as a unit of account in order to avoid losing value between the harvest and the payment.
📈 More production, less profitability
The paradox is that Venezuelan coffee is not doing badly in terms of volume. The 2025–2026 cycle ended with about 4 million quintals over 250,000 hectares under cultivation, and a growth close to 10% is estimated, with more than 226,000 tons harvested. About 84% of that production is concentrated in Lara and Portuguesa.
In other words: there is harvest, there is land, and there is the capacity to recover. What is missing is a pricing structure that turns that effort into well-being for those who work the land. The union sums it up as a situation of financial unsustainability in the primary sector, made worse because buyers hold market power that leaves the producer with few negotiation alternatives.
🔎 What producers are asking for
The request to the AN has several specific fronts:
• Immediate installation of a Parliamentary Technical Table where the real expenses of the production cycle are broken down.
• An exhortation to the Ministry of Productive Agriculture and Lands and to the Venezuelan Coffee Corporation to establish a base sustainability price.
• A system for overseeing exports that guarantees fair returns and incentives to the communities of origin.
The Committee also holds that unilateral price-setting clashes with several articles of the Law for the Promotion and Advancement of Coffee, which point to a decent standard of living and to economic protection for the producer against variations in inputs.
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