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 […]
Raised by her grandparents in the small town of Santa Elena in Honduras, Orellana-Powell is either related to or friends with all the small farmers who are now the providers of the coffee beans that her Catracha Coffee Company imports, roasts and sells. Orellana-Powell started her company to showcase Honduran coffee, which she feels is […]
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 […]
At the beverage exhibition in the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), for the first time in history, coffee beans native to Honduras have been packaged in Taiwanese promotional materials. A Central American coffee-themed booth at the Taipei Tea, Coffee, and Alcohol Exhibition this past week, boasted the five major Central American coffee producers of El […]
Good weather here in Honduras has been boosting coffee crops, and it appears the weather will continue to be helpful to this year’s coffee yield. Honduran growers are optimistic about the output for the 2011-12 harvest which will be starting in the coming month of October. According to Volcafe, one of the world’s leading coffee […]