The Council of Ministers approved that Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula will return from July 29 to Phase I of the Opening Plan, which allows companies to operate with 20% of their workforce.
According to the proposal put forward by the Multisectoral Table, commerce and companies in general were authorized so that as of Wednesday, July 29, they can resume their activities and business, according to the percentage of the workforce, as per the authorized region, using the biosecurity protocols approved by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
After suspending the process of reopening the economy, on July 27 the country will resume Phase I in Region 3, which provides for the reactivation of operations of companies with 20% of their workforceº
Through the implementation of data mining and machine learning techniques, companies can improve their efficiency and optimize their production processes.
EDITORIAL
Analyzing large volumes of data to make decisions that result in better results for a company applies not only to the commercial and sales field, but also to other areas of the same or even more sensitive companies: the production process.
Financial Intermediation and the Manufacturing Industry determined to a large extent the 3.5% increase registered in the Gross Domestic Product during the first quarter of the year, with respect to the same period of 2018.
Guatemala and El Salvador are the Central American economies that have registered the lowest levels of economic growth, when this is associated with the size of their public sector.
Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica are the countries that would be obtaining exceptional results in their economic growth from the average expenditure of the region during 2011 to 2018, which could be associated with the investment made in past periods, informed the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi).
The fall in international grain prices in recent years has increasingly affected producers in the region, who at current prices do not even reach the production costs.
Since years ago, international sugar prices have reported a clear downward trend, and in the last twelve months the quintal price registered a fall of 23%.
Agriculture and communications largely determined the 3.1% increase recorded in the Gross Domestic Product during the third quarter of the year, compared to the same period in 2017.
During the third quarter of 2018, the out-of-season series of the GDPT showed a 0.7% increase in real terms, when compared to the level of the second quarter. With this, the GDPT increased 3.1% year-on-year, reaching an accumulated rate of 3.4% in 2018, informed the Central Bank of Honduras.
After investing $26 million in the expansion of its beer plant in San Pedro Sula, Cervecería Hondureña plans to increase its production from 1.6 million to 2.6 million hectoliters.
The brewing company, a member of conglomerate AB Inbev, inaugurated its modern production plant this week, with the capacity to pack 50,000 bottles per hour, and which will have a storage space of 14,000 m2.
The company Aquafinca announced that it plans to increase production of tilapia fillets by 40%, with an investment of between $10 and $15 million starting from 2019.
Fabricio López, manager of the company, assured the Honduran media that currently they produce about 28 thousand tons of tilapia fillet, and that with the planned investment they will increase total production by 40%, with the objective of serving new markets, such as the Caribbean.
Financial Intermediation and Public Administration, were the sectors that most influenced the annual growth of almost 5% registered during the past year.
Global coffee output for 2017/18 is preliminary estimated at 158.78 million bags, 0.7% higher than last year.
Total production of Arabica is estimated to decrease by 1.1% to 97.32 million bags compared to 98.42 million bags last year, as lower production of Colombian Milds and Brazilian Naturals are only partially offset by increases in Other Milds. An increase of 3.7% is expected in Robustas, due largely to a rebound in Vietnam, the world’s largest Robusta producer.
Up until December 20, sales of the current 2017/18 crop totaled $84 million, 12% less than the amount reported on the same date of the 2016-2017 cycle.
From the IHCAFE Statistical Information Bulletin:
As of December 20, 2017, 2017-2018 harvest.
Exports to date total 708,828 bags of 46 kg, an increase of 5% compared to the 672,301 recorded in the same period in 2016-2017.The value of exports is 83.8 million dollars, showing a decrease of 12% compared tothe 95.5 million registered on this date in 2016-2017.
Climatic conditions have favored shrimp production this year, and according to estimates made by the sector, the year could close with an exported volume over 70 million pounds.
The union for this product estimates that if the trend seen in production figures continues until September, 2017 could close with even better figures than those achieved in 2014, considered one of the best performing periods in recent years. Figures from the National Association of Aquaculture Producers of Honduras (Andah) indicate that up to September 30 the volume exported was 45,480,000 pounds.
The meat and sausage processors' association estimates that 7.5 million pounds are processed on a monthly basis.
Sergio Moreno, president of the Honduran Association of Processors of Meats and Sausages, which groups together about 15 companies, explained to Laprensa.hn that"... every month the Honduran families that buy these products consume between 3 and 4 pounds of processed meat, a pattern of consumption similar to that of other Central American countries."
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