The Government of the Republic of Honduras, has agreed with the Secretary of Industry and Trade, to freeze the price of a pound of Honduran coffee at forth-three lempiras a pound. According to the authorities, and after investigation, it was found that several brands of coffee had unreasonably increased the price of this agricultural product. […]
The World Bank and Swiss Cooperation team carried out a supervision mission between September 29 and October 6, 2011, with field visits in San Pedro Sula and Santa Rosa de Copan to visit five producer organizations (POs) which applied to received funds from the project, one service provider (Technoserve) providing support to the POs, and […]
Now most Honduran coffee farmers sell “green” coffee beans because they don’t have the energy-intensive capability to process it into more profitable “golden” coffee beans. The beans must have pulp removed and the jellylike mucilage around the seed washed off. After that, they must be gently dried. Typically, the pulp is stockpiled but can wash […]
La Tropicana Exotics Food Importers was founded over three years ago by Vincent Schoonbrood. Before this, he had been active for over 15 years in the fruit and vegetable trade, ten years of which was in exotics. La Tropicana mainly trades in fresh products for ethnic markets, such as ginger, cassava, eddo, sweet potatoes, yams, […]
The export of beef produced in Honduras will reach about 25 million dollars this year, according to the projections of the National Service for Agricultural Health (Senasa). Honduras meat exportation has grown by more than 120 per cent, with increases in sales to Bolivia, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. Statistics provided by […]