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06-02-2008, 04:10 PM
The National Coffee Council (Codocafe) has announced the prizes for the best coffee produced in 2007. The prizes went to farmers' collectives. The first prize went to the La Experiencia association of small growers and the second prize went to the Coffee Growers of La Laguna. The competition is held as part of the program aimed at improving the quality of the Dominican harvest that is currently generating around US$20 million a year in export dollars. Some of the financing for the project comes from the French Development Agency and is administered by CODOCAFE. According to Fausto Burgos, the head of the council, Dominican coffee maintains a marked price differential in the market due to its flavor characteristics. Burgos says that last year Dominican coffee sold for US$30 more per hundredweight. The sector employs 70,000 people.
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