Coffee Harvest Close to 2.2 million QuintalsTuesday, April 17, 2012 The Nicaraguan coffee harvest of 2011-2012, has reached the target set by the National Production Plan. Official closing data points to 2.2 million quintals surpassing the 2.15 million expected despite the losses suffered by the sector due to adverse weather conditions, said Juan Ramón Obregón, executive secretary of the National Coffee Council (CONACAFE). Guatemala guarantees growth of corn production of up to 30 per centFriday, May 2, 2008 The Government of Guatemala says that the harvest of white corn will grow by as much as 30 per cent this year, enough to satisfy local demand and possibly even to export some surplus to el Salvador. Guatemala's Minister of Agriculture, Raúl Robles, said the government's Basic Grain Emergency Plan will ensure that white corn production will rise to 36.5 million quintals. A quintal weighs 101.5 pounds, or just over 46 kilograms. Nicaragua: Plans for Robusta CoffeeTuesday, February 21, 2017 Projections for the 2016/17 harvest are for 40 million hundredweight of the robusta variety, and that the harvest in 2017/18 cycle will increase by 30%. After authorization was given in December for extensive planting of this variety in seven departments in the Pacific and in the autonomous regions of the Northern and Southern Caribbean, except Waslala, the group Mercon Coffee Group is preparing to start cultivation and expects to collect in this first harvest about 40,000 hundredweight. Nicaragua: Cotton Production StagnantTuesday, October 16, 2012 The government plan aimed to have a growth of 407% in planted area and double the crop yield. However, the reality has ended up being well below expectations. The planted area reached only 650 hectares, a figure even lower than in the previous harvest, when 1.709 hectares were planted. Nicaragua: Good Crop of Beans and Corn PredictedThursday, July 26, 2012 In the case of beans, the goal was to plant 110 thousand hectares, but 112,000 were planted. In corn, the number of hectares increased from 304,000 to 315,000. From a press release from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: Nicaragua: Peanut Harvest Grows by 15%Monday, December 5, 2011 A production of 3 million quintals of peanuts will be the result of the harvest that began in November and ends in early January 2012. The 15% increase compared to the previous harvest is the result of an improvement in the performance of the planted area, as acreage has not been extended, said the producer Mauricio Zacharias. Salvadoran coffee farms will change 2009/2010 projectionsMonday, December 8, 2008 The increase in minimum wages has caused the coffee sector to reestablish its goals for the current harvest. A new increase in the minimum salary was not included in the projections for the 2009-2010 harvest, according to Salvadoran farmers. With this change, under which they will have to pay $0.78 per each 25 lbs of harvest coffee, farmers will need to change their plans, despite the fact that they pay their workers more than the minimum wage ($1 per each 25 lbs of coffee). Honduras: Improvement in Grain Production ForecastFriday, August 26, 2016 It has been estimated that the total production of beans, sorghum and maize at the end the 2016 harvest will exceed 12 million hundredweight. Laprensa.hn reports that "...Corn growers (white, yellow and sorghum) forecast a harvest of between eight million and nine million hundredweight at the end of the year, which will mean an increase of 60% compared to the figures recorded in 2015, which barely reached four million hundredweight." Costa Rican Agriculture Faces Up to $39 Million in LossesWednesday, November 17, 2010 The Ministry of Agriculture estimates losses of $ 39 million in the wake of storms Nicole and Thomas. The report by the Regional Operations Authority noted that losses from storm Nicole, last September, amounted to $ 13 million. Preliminary reports put the damage caused by Tomas tropical storm at $26 million. El Salvador Predicts Record Harvest of Basic GrainsFriday, August 26, 2011 According to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, 19.6 million quintals of corn and 2.7 million quintals of beans are expected to be harvested. A press release by the Presidency of the Republic of El Salvador reads: Transformation of Coffee Growing in NicaraguaTuesday, April 29, 2014 The government has proposed the creation of an integrated national commission made up of producers, exporters and the financial sector in order to develop and revive the sector. The purpose is to develop a medium-term plan to reactivate the coffee growing sector after the devastation caused by the rust fungus, which affected 28% of the 2013/14 harvest. Record Coffee Production in ColombiaMonday, November 7, 2016 The largest producer of washed Arabica coffee increased its harvest in the last twelve months by 3%, reaching 14 million bags each weighing 60 kilos. From a statement by the National Federation of Coffee Growers in Colombia: Salvadoran Farmers Predict Bean ShortageThursday, August 11, 2011 Despite forecasts by the Ministry of Agriculture, the union has warned that the harvest scheduled for later this year will be insufficient. Oscar Albanez, president of the Agricultural Suppliers Association (APA), told the press that "the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) has said that bean production will amount to 2.6 million quintals and our forecast is around 1.9 million." Failure of Cotton Project in Nicaragua?Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Although cotton is currently going through a good time, the National Plan for Production, Consumption and Trade does not include this seed for the crop season 2013-14. Despite this situation, farmers are reluctant to stop planting because they owe about $2 million to Alba-Caruna and because in terms of demand and prices, cotton is currently going through a good time. Nicaragua: Coffee Farmers Refuse to Contribute to Renewal PlanMonday, June 3, 2013 Nicaraguan coffee growers are opposing payment of $3 per quintal of coffee for the creation of the Fund for Transformation and Development of Coffee. Laprensa.com.ni reports that "through the National Transformation and Development of Coffee Program, the government will create by law an obligation for coffee growers to give $3 per quintal exported during the next two coffee cycles. |
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