By Katherine Zavala | Coordinator of Programs
DESMI provided technical assistance to farmers from 5 municipalities seeking to form a cooperative to export their coffee without needing to sell to intermediaries. The cooperative represents over 1,000 farmers. They are currently in the final phase of legal paperwork, and have negotiated their first sale. In late 2007, they will export two containers of coffee to Italy.
Most of the participating farmers are applying the organic farming techniques they learned not only on their coffee crops but also to their crops of corn, beans and vegetables. The members are studying the possibility of selling some of their vegetables in the local and national markets as their next step.
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