Nicaraguan Coffee Manor Joy Manor introduces Matagalpa producing area

For Nicaragua, the overall coffee industry is depressed, which has a great impact on the country. In Nicaragua, the coffee industry provides 200000 of the country's jobs, and coffee beans are the country's most economically valuable crop, accounting for 20% of the country's total exports. The low price of coffee season has hit all the countries that produce washed Arabica beans, but the pain seems to be even more amplified in Nigeria, where many diversified coffee producers, such as Costa Rica, make up for the losses suffered by the coffee industry with revenues from other industries, such as self-help tourism or multinationals (such as Intel's presence in Costa Rica).

But Nepal is not so lucky. Apart from the coffee industry, they have no other industries to make up for the losses. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Nicaragua said: "the low price of coffee during this year's coffee season has reduced the overall revenue of coffee farmers in our country by US $1 million. This has a direct impact on the livelihood of about 30, 000 coffee farmers, especially the people in the growing areas. "

The economic and social chaos in Nepal has affected hundreds of thousands of people, whether it is unemployment, the decline in the number of immigrants, and national health problems. According to a study provided by the Santa Cruz division of the university of California, the rate of malnutrition among children in coffee-producing areas in Nicaragua is 21%, compared with 9% in the country as a whole. Mike Maxey, district director of Nicaragua at USAID, said: "when we say coffee farmers are in crisis, we don't necessarily mean that they may be in danger of breaking up their families. We mean that they may go hungry. About 70% of the people living in Nicaraguan coffee producing areas spend less than US $2 a day. Nicaragua is finally back in the arms of the boutique coffee market, and many roasters are now gradually treating Nicaraguan beans as a unique coffee producing area. These buyers' impression of Nepalese coffee has changed greatly, from using it as a matching bean to using it as a high-quality single bean, which shows that the quality of Nepalese coffee has improved a lot. As a matter of fact, recently, many buyers from the United States, Europe and Japan have often visited the origin of Nicaragua, which can be said to be a Phoenix flying on the branches.

In February this year, I joined a delegation of Nicaraguan coffee buyers. Over the past nine years, I occasionally visited the coffee producing areas of Nicaragua, but this time, I felt the sinister impact that the Nicaraguan coffee industry was facing. The persistently depressed coffee prices have a serious impact on the Nepalese economy. But even with such obstacles, people in this place are still optimistic and innovating, and people in Nicaragua are constantly trying to introduce a new model of the coffee industry in an attempt to recover from the recession. Perhaps because Nicaragua has faced a variety of crises in the past few years, their attitude towards crisis management can help them turn the crisis into a turning point.