In the last four years producers of beans, vegetables, cocoa and vegetables, participants of the project "Inclusive Businesses" have increased their profitability thanks to training, advice and funding.

The project implemented by Pymerural and which has the support of Catholic Relief Services Programme, SNV-Inclusive Business, has "... plans to invest up to $53 million over five years in order to develop systems for efficient and competitive markets with the participation of excluded groups, that is to say low-income producers whose yields per crop are inefficient, who today have become major players in the marketing chain and inside and outside of their communities. "

Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni

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