As part of a long-term plan to increase grain sales to the North American country, a group of Nicaraguan producers will start with a first shipment of 40,000 hundredweight.
Friday, July 28, 2017
The group of producers leading the initiative explained that the sale will be made jointly with Honduran producers.In the case of Nicaragua, it is expected that about $2 million will be generated from the export of 40 thousand hundredweight.
Javier Pasquier, president of the Federation of Cooperatives for Development (Fecodesal), told Elnuevodiario.com.ni that"..."As a result of this effort to join forces we managed to obtain a market in Mexico for 40,000 hundredweight of beans that will be exported at the beginning of September and with which wewill obtain an excellent price, above US $50 per hundredweight."
"...In parallel to the negotiation to export the first 40 thousand hundredweight, the producers created the National Bean Commission.According to Pasquier, this effort will be made up of several organizations that bring together some 40,000 bean producers in the country."The National Bean Commission will advocate to solve all the problems that exist in the bean chain, the important thing is that now we are not only producers, but we have also united entrepreneurs who are engaged insales and entrepreneurs who are devote to processing," Pasquier said.
Producers in Costa Rica must further improve their productivity if they want to compete with the low prices offered for the same product internationally.
Currently a quintal of the grain sells in Costa Rica for around $40, whereas inside the Costa Rican market producers are trying to sell their harvest for $60, arguing that industrialists are offering them at lower prices in order to buy their production.
Estimates for the 2014/2015 harvest are that production will be less than the 120 million hundredweight of beans demanded per year in the country.
Compared with the previous crop year there will be a deficit of 6,698 hundredweight, as 359 hectares less have been cultivated than last year, according to the National Directorate of Agriculture.
The company, part of the ALBA Petroleos conglomerate, has become the main supplier of grain to agribusinesses.
This was confirmed by Oscar Albanian, general manager of ALBA, adding that they are maintaining a reserve of 50,000 tons of basic grains, through a contract with the company Precocidos de El Salvador.
Once the end of the 2013-2014 crop season has finished 1.2 million pounds of black beans will have been sold to Venezuela.
"A larger effort has been devoted to the production of black beans for export, due to the security afforded by the market agreement between the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua," said the president of the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (UNAG), Alvaro Fiallos, alluding to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
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