Honduran coffee growing and improvement programme? Honduras coffee beans export status?

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Coffee planting and improvement Program in Honduras? The export status of coffee beans in Honduras?

According to IHCAFE, producers have increased their acreage because of the rise in international soybean prices, which are mainly due to two factors:

(1) it coincides with the coffee cycle every two years (the output of Hongguo's unique bi-annual cycle of coffee production is high in one year and low in the second year). The output is just higher than that in the previous year.

(2) the price rises, so that coffee farmers are willing to pay more painstaking efforts to take care of coffee trees and fertilize or even improve fertilization techniques, and pest control techniques!

However, due to the stimulation of prices, farmers are already willing to spend money on seeds and pest prevention.

After visiting Honduras twice and referring to relevant materials, we found the following conditions:

The main results are as follows: (1) the basic transportation and storage facilities still need to be improved. Due to the lack of better treatment plant, transportation and storage, a good evaluation of Honduras beans is still lacking.

(2) the treatment of coffee cherries has been improved after harvest, thanks to IHCAFE's coffee promotion and education! But lack of money and resources, as well as farmers who have not joined the IHCAFE, are still extremely short of resources.

(4) as can be seen from Acer's trade data, coffee is still sold to Guatemala and El Salvador, and many high-quality beans can be exported to Guatemala to sell high-quality beans (for more information, see: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Date: 5ax 25max 2004)

Some exporters want to get cash quickly or make a difference, and the price of neighboring Guatemala is much higher than that of Acer in the futures market. These factors cause Hongguo coffee beans to be sold to neighboring countries every year. So there are many examples of beans from Copan Copan and Santa Barbara being smuggled into Guatemala to pretend to sell melon beans!

In the southern province of La Paz, when the border with El Salvador was not closed, many beans were shipped to the country. This is one of the reasons why Honduras Coffee is considered to have no boutique beans and can only be used as a mild blend.

[methods of improvement]

(1) guaranteed by IHCAFE, borrowers have to pay US $4 per bag (46kg), so it can curb the rise of bad debts and prevent producers from viciously cutting prices to sell coffee cherries or raw beans!

(2) IHCAFE, which will introduce new agricultural models to increase the value of coffee farms, is developing plans to help coffee producers make their farms produce food, fish, poultry, bees or fruits. This will make farmers self-sufficient, which will mean that producers do not need to buy those products and can generate some other income.

(3) promote boutique coffee, hold national coffee competitions, explore excellent manors, and hold various marketing activities at home and abroad: Cup of Excellence of Honduras has indeed made Hongguo a boutique manor, which is what coffee glutton is happy to see! However, compared with the Central American countries, ICAFE and Honduras, there is still a lot of room for progress.