”We have increased our sales volumes”
CEPROAA connected with TCHO, a U.S. company which in 2022 placed a first order of 12 tons of cacao and by 2023 has already reached 50 tons.
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Activities
In El Salvador, MOCCA has set up partnerships with organizations through which it will train more than 2,400 coffee producers (40% women), providing technical assistance, access to research, quality planting material, and the promotion of an innovative financing model.
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Where we are
GOAL
2,400
Farmers
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.
News
José Valerio Díaz: “I have doubled the productivity of my coffee plantation”
The good coffee growing practices learned through the MOCCA and Becamo alliance helped Honduran producer José Valerio Díaz to double his productivity.
Training and marketing without intermediaries result in higher income for coffee producers in Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Husband and wife team Matilde Martínez and Irma Recinos increased the productivity of their farm and their income, thanks to training provided by the MOCCA program and ofi.
Launching of a contest fund for coffee research
MOCCA and Promecafe launched the Competitive Fund to Support Coffee Research, to co-finance research to improve the profitability of coffee producers in the region.
Refurbishing the cocoa farm and increasing income through good management
MOCCA program trainings helped Nicaraguan cocoa farmer Hermes Meza increase the productivity of his plantation and obtain up to 68% more income.
Mauricio Calderón Sansivirini: “The Salvadoran Coffee Institute will be in charge of coffee growing research, training, and technological development “
We spoke with Mauricio Calderón Sansivirini, Director of the Salvadoran Coffee Institute, to learn about the contributions of this new institution and its impact on the development of the coffee sector in El Salvador.
“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