Arguing that the unusual growth in sugar imports is harming local production, the Alvarado administration decided to raise the tariff on products entering Costa Rica from 45% to 73% for a three-year period.
The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) concluded the investigation requested by the Agricultural Industrial League of Sugar Cane (LAICA) and 4 mills, on the safeguard measure against imports of solid state, granulated sugar, known as white sugar, used for domestic and industrial consumption, justifying a deterioration in the main economic indicators of the National Production Branch (RPN), details an official statement dated June 15.
A study carried out among companies in Guatemala concludes that eight out of ten companies consider continuing with the work-from-home modality once the crisis generated by covid-19 is over.
Higher levels of productivity, better balance between personal life and work, added to savings in travel time and expenses, are part of the benefits of implementing the modality of working from home or another place other than the traditional office. In the unfortunate context in which the Central American region lives due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the impact it has had at the economic level, the positive results that have been achieved with the possibility of working from home show that, from every crisis, something good always comes out.
The growing trend to work for companies that offer the flexibility to work from home or in spaces outside the office, is modifying the employee performance and even triggering changes in the real estate market.
Experts on the subject say that Panama reports a growing trend, which consists of employees choosing not to work in eminently corporate environments and do so in coworking’s, cafeterias and avant-garde offices, or even work from home.
The difficulties in identifying staff training needs and the lack of a clear relationship between new employee skills and incentives diminishes the possibility of achieving company goals.
According to the Deloitte 2019 Global Study of Human Capital Trends, in which more than 9,400 business leaders from around the world participated, including 261 from Costa Rica, the learning of business staff is the most relevant trend.
For the IDB, investment in infrastructure is the most important priority when increasing the probability of improving productivity and reaching higher per capita income levels in the countries of the region.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published its report "Building Opportunities for Growth in a Challenging World," in which it addresses the benefits of infrastructure investment and its influence on productivity growth in the countries of the region.
In Nicaragua, entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector have reiterated the benefits that this technology brings in terms of competitiveness, and insist on clear rules for their use.
Fumigating at lower costs and improving surveillance of planted areas are some of the benefits that drones provide for agricultural activities. An example of this is the data provided by the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (Upanic), whose representatives say that with a drone, the cost of spraying a manzana (7,042.25 m2 = 1.74 acres) of crops is 20 cents, well below the $3 it costs using traditional methods.
The first thing that the new organization made up of producers and exporters will do is determine the factors that affect the productivity of Nicaraguan coffee.
The National Platform for Sustainability of Coffee (Nicafes), made up of 33 private sector organizations, among them producers, suppliers and exporters, has the objective of making up for the absence of a leading institution in the sector, which defines and coordinates policies for the development of coffee activities.
In the first four months of the year the volume exported was 256 million kilos, 84% more than in the same period in 2016.
Growth in the cultivated area and productivity improvements explain the better performance of the sugar industry in Nicaragua.In the first quarter of the year, not only did the exported volume go up, but so did exported value, going from $50 million generated in the same period in 2016 to $118 million this year.
In the 2015/2016 cycle, grain production was 14.7 hundredweight per manzana (6,961 m2), above the 12.7 hundredweight per manzana produced in the previous cycle.
The improvement in productivity was due in part to a 9% increase in the harvested areain the period 2015/2016 compared to the previous cycle.The harvested area in 2015/16 amounted to 163,900 manzanas, above the 149,800 manzanas registered in the 2014/15 cycle.
The annual growth rate of output per worker in Panama has tripled compared to that of Costa Rica after the 2008/09 crisis, Guatemala's grew by just 1%, and other countries maintained similar values to 2004.
From the V Report on the State of the Region 2016:
According to estimates based on data from Cepal, productivity per worker in Central America is below the average for Latin America, which in 2010 was $30,000.Panama and Costa Rica are the closest, with levels above $20,000.The other countries are far from reaching the average: in Guatemala and El Salvador GDP per worker is around $8,500 and in Nicaragua and Honduras it is $3,500 and $5,000, respectively (Figure 4.23).
Increased acreage did not offset the effects of drought which caused a 11% drop in production in 2015/16.
In the 2015/16 season productivity fell by 16% compared to the previous harvest, going from 1,524 hundredweight per hectare in the previous harvest to 1,273 hundredweight per hectare in the current one.
Aside from these results, the Nicaraguan sugar industry estimates that the results of the next harvest will be better because of the projected increase in rainfall over the coming months.
Protectionist measures that favor dominant firms in domestic markets only extend the inevitable process of globalization, making it more expensive for consumers.
Whether a milk is 'good' or not is decided by consumers themselves by evaluating its quality and cost.Milk has no nationality.It's just milk.
The implementation of adequate irrigation infrastructure would provide the conditions needed to produce year-round, raising the productivity of Nicaraguan agriculture.
Lack of infrastructure is preventing taking advantage of the potential of rainwater in the agricultural sector, which relying solely on rain, is able to grow only once year, in the winter period.Data provided by Santiago Jaramillo, agronomist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) indicates that the yield (kg / ha) of crops such as corn and beans could rise from 2125 to 9100in the first case and 675-1500 in the second case.
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