Mirtala Madrid increased the productivity of her coffee farm
Honduran coffee farmer doubled her productivity by reducing the presence of pests on her farm and implementing tissue management techniques learned in MOCCA and Becamo training.
This alliance strengthens the positioning of Salvadoran coffee in higher value markets, thus promoting a culture of quality in the production process to satisfy the demand for gourmet coffees in foreign countries. Parallel to these activities, MOCCA and the CSC are designing mechanisms to facilitate profitable financing and are also developing a model plan for the establishment of the Coffee Institute, which will strengthen the technical capacities and knowledge of producers.
We will provide both cooperatives and individual producers served by BFA with technical assistance in renovation and rehabilitation, as well as the design of financing products that respond to the specific profiles and characteristics of the demand for financing of coffee producers, including other actors in the chain, such as nursery operators.
MOCCA and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador are promoting mechanisms for productive financing and capital raising, aimed at the renovation and rehabilitation of plots, within the national framework of the Coffee Transformation and Sustainability Plan, in order to establish responsibilities and expectations directed towards actions to strengthen the coffee sector in El Salvador.
Honduran coffee farmer doubled her productivity by reducing the presence of pests on her farm and implementing tissue management techniques learned in MOCCA and Becamo training.
Armando went from selling 900 cocoa plants in 2021 to almost 3,000 in 2023. The production of other plants in the nursery has also doubled.
Coffee farmer José Méndez Cardona increased the yields of his coffee farm by 40% thanks to the good fertilization practices learned in the MOCCA program training.
Eusebio is part of the producers who are trained under the alliance established by MOCCA and Mercon, through which more than 5 thousand coffee producers have received training and established direct commercial links.
Husband and wife coffee growers José Salazar and Jesús Rodríguez have reduced the incidence of coffee berry borer in their coffee plantation by implementing the good pest management and residue management practices learned at MOCCA.
Through the MOCCA alliance, it will contribute to strengthening AHPROCAFE’s capabilities to provide its business and union base bodies with technical and financial support services.
Isaías Zelada Grijalva
Coffee Nursery entrepreneur
El Salvador