Urbanization Beats Coffee

Every day that passes by we see less and less evidence of the times in which San José of Costa Rica was a huge coffee plantation.

Monday, January 11, 2010

It is impossible for coffee to compete with real estate development in terms of return on investment, so every year more and more coffee plantations are replaced by urbanization projects, with coffee production falling each year.

An analysis in Elfinancierocr.com reports that "according to data from the Costa Rican Coffee Institute (Icafé), in 2009/10 the country will produce 2.2 million fanegas, similar to the previous harvest.
If we compare it with less recent harvests, the difference is striking. In 1999/2000, the country produced 3.5 million fanegas, and, if we compare 2000 with 2006, planted area diminished 13% in the country and 8% in the Central Valley area".

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