The recovery of road infrastructure in bean producing regions will be vital to the success of the harvest, the volume positions Honduras as the largest Central American producer and third in America.

At the opening of 43rd Coffee Congress taking place in San Pedro Sula, Asterio Reyes, president of the Honduran Coffee Institute, IHCAFE said that Honduras, "according to statistics from the International Coffee Organization, is the only country which has always had rise in production, unlike other countries like Colombia, which has cut its production by around five or six million bags, Vietnam and others.”

This historic volume for coffee harvest has great impact not only on foreign currency market, which will be close to $ 1,000 million, but by the number of jobs created during collection, which should alleviate some of the high unemployment.

Source: laprensa.hn

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