New Project Launched to Support Central American Coffee Producers

(Goal is to help region compete in global coffee market) (590)
By Eric Green
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington -- A new project jointly financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and a non-profit U.S. organization has been launched to help coffee growers in Central America become more competitive on the global market.

The three-year project will receive $4.5 million from the IDB and Connecticut-based TechnoServe to help improve the quality of coffee grown in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the IDB said in a May 5 statement.

TechnoServe is involved with finding business solutions to rural poverty.

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