Nicaragua growers open sustainable coffee conference

NICARAGUA: November 11, 2002

MANAGUA - Nicaragua coffee producers began two days of meetings with global experts on sustainable development as they seek ways to market their coffees and survive the third year of a world coffee crisis.

Some 400 producers from Nicaragua, Latin America's poorest country after Haiti, and other regions that have been hard hit by the coffee price crisis, attended the conference in Managua to learn about specialty markets, which pay more for higher quality beans.

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