Uncertainty for Mexican coffee producers amid new policy.(Cover Story)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, June, 2005 by Wallengren, Maja

Uncertainty looms high for Mexico's 481,000 mostly smallholder coffee producers, as the government has announced a series of sweeping new policies which feeds an estimated three million Mexicans in some of the most isolated and least developed regions of the country. While the Mexican Coffee Council is seen close to liquidation and Roberto Giesemann has resigned as executive president of the government-run organization, producers have appealed to the government to keep the council operating and continue the support programs it set up under Giesemann's leadership during the past four years.

It came from nowhere, with no warning, no prior consultations. Overnight Mexican coffee producers were informed that the council they had relied on for over a decade as...

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