Coffee growers of the southern region demand that the government have an emergency alternative to the real threat that the greatest and best cafe of the Dominican Republic is lost in the last 10 years.
The estimated harvest for this year must overcome for the first time in a decade the 300 A thousand quintals of coffee, producers indicate that only in the southern region it is expected that the harvest will exceed the 120 A thousand quintals.
The increase in national production coincides with the highest price of coffee in the world market in 50 years. Yesterday the local buying companies were paying the quintal of 100 pounds to 21, 500 pesos.
A coffee harvest that exceeds 300 thousand quintals with current prices means that more than 6 billion pesos will circulate in the most depressed areas of the country.
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The loss of this harvest would mean not only the impoverishment of national producers but also an increase in the import of grain from other producing countries and the search for currencies for that import. The equation is simple, instead of adding 6 billion pesos among producers, searching 100 million dollars to import the same amount; If half of the harvest is lost divide the numbers into the same proportion.
This year in which producers expected to overcome the shortcomings of accumulated losses, there is no one to collect the product because there are no longer Dominican or Haitian collectors.
The behavior of national production has gone down since 2012. As of 2013 when there were just 300 thousand quintals, production went down until the most critical year that was 2016 when 86 thousand quintals were barely produced.
Each free coffee that falls from the bush is 21 pesos that it will not receive. The advance of the October rains that normally occur in mid -harvest has aggravated the situation and neither the Café Institute nor the Ministry of Agriculture offers any assistance.
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