Ciriaco Martínez Banegas: A life dedicated to coffee
Honduran coffee producer increased productivity on his coffee farm thanks to practices learned in MOCCA training.
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Our progress
In El Salvador, MOCCA collaborates with 3 partners in coffee: Salvadoran Coffee Institute, Banco de Fomento Agropecuario (BFA) and the Salvadoran Association of Women in Coffee (AMCES), through which it will train more than 4,707 coffee producers, providing technical assistance, access to research, quality planting material and the promotion of an innovative financing model. Additional private-sector partners supporting MOCCA activities in El Salvador: The J.M. Smucker Company.
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FARMERS TRAINED
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ENHANCED HECTARES
With best agronomic practices
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NURSERIES TRAINED
With technical assistance and business management
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RESEARCH SUPPORTED
For agronomic treatments and variety analysis
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FINANCING FACILITATED
For working capital, purchase of inputs and investments in farms
Where we are
Farmers trained
4,707
We work in partnership
TechnoServe leads the coffee program in El Salvador, with the support of partners such as the Salvadoran Coffee Council, BFA and the Ministry of Agriculture, providing training to producers for the implementation of best practices that help increase productivity, quality, and profitability. We work in support of the coffee component of the Master Plan to Rescue Agriculture, whose goal is to renew 35 thousand hectares of coffee in El Salvador.
Our partnerships
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.
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“My sales have improved a great deal! Now I am an authorized supplier of marsellesa for Starbucks. They trust me because they know that I have good controls, since thanks to Viverista de Oro I learned to implement protocols and keep records for the preventive control of diseases and pests, reducing the deterioration of quality due to this cause almost to zero.”.
Isaías Zelada Grijalva
Coffee Nursery entrepreneur
El Salvador