Local coffee company Cafe Organico Marcala (COMSA) was forced to rent out a nearby soccer field this year and cover it with plastic sheets to air out coffee cherries after their cement-drying patios overflowed. “We’ve had an avalanche of coffee,” COMSA’s manager Rodolfo Penalba said, as workers raked beans over the plastic in neat rows. […]
Honduras and Guatemala, Central America’s largest coffee growers, are having “good” flowering before the start of the next crop, according to Volcafe Ltd. Producers in Guatemala are reporting the progress in all regions, Volcafe, the coffee unit of commodities trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd., said in a report e-mailed today. In Honduras, the flowerings are […]
PRESS RELEASE If you can name it, there’s probably a competitive event for it. For instance, coffee has its own competition called the Cup of Excellence. In the coffee world, no honor is more sought after. It is given each year to only top coffees from participating coffee-producing countries. Countries that have held Cup of […]
The presidential designee, Samuel Reyes, welcomed the Board of Directors of the Association of Special Coffees of America (SCAA) to the presidential house yesterday afternoon, along with presidential designee and Minister of the Presidency, María Antonieta Guillén, members of the government cabinet, managers of the Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE) and other coffee organizations, to officially […]
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. […]