Kinshasa, April 11th, 2025 (CPA) – The price of a kilogram of Robusta coffee, an export product of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has recorded an increase of 4.92% on the international markets, trading at USD 5.76 per kilogram in the week from April 7th to 12th, 2025 compared to USD 5.49 the previous week, according to a press release consulted on Thursday by CPA.
‘The Robusta coffee records a price increase on the international markets, during the week of April 7th to 12th, 2025, by trading at USD 5.76 against USD 5.49 the previous week, that is to say an increase of 4.92% per Kilogram’, it is read in the communique of the National Commission of Mercuriales of the Ministry in charge of Foreign Trade.
According to the source, in addition to cocoa, another agricultural and forestry product is also showing a rise in international prices during the week under review.
However, six other products have remained stable on international markets namely: the rubber, the papain, the cinchona bark, the Totaquina powder, the Quinine salt and the Rauwolfia. They are trading at USD 1.11 per kilogram, USD 22.44 per kilogram, USD 1.58 per kilogram, USD 55.80 per kilogram, USD 94.86 per kilogram and USD 1.58 per kilogram respectively during the execution week. However, the source has pointed out that only one agricultural and forestry product is down, namely the Arabica coffee, negotiable at USD 7.33 per kilogram, during the period under review compared with USD 7.55 during the week of March 31st to April 5th, 2025, i.e. a decline of 2.91% per kilogram.
Furthermore, compared with the period from March 10th to 15th, 2025, the Robusta coffee was down on the international market, trading at USD 5.45 compared with USD 5.51 in the week from March 3rd to 8th, 2025, representing a decline of 1.09% per kilogram. The rise, the fall and the stability of the prices of merchant mining, agricultural and forestry products, the document has pointed out, are the result of supply and demand on the international markets, as well as the supply chain.
It is worth to note that the coffee production in the Democratic Republic of Congo is centred on the shores of Lake Kivu. There is around 11,000 coffee growers throughout the country, producing the two main varieties of coffee, namely Robusta and Arabica.
During the last three years, the country has produced between 45 and 50 million 60kg bags of coffee.
These fluctuations have a direct impact on the Congolese economy, which is heavily dependent on exports of raw materials, particularly in the mining sector.