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Costa Rican Coffee Worker The Costa Rican coffee producer is simple and courageous like his fellow countrymen. He loves the land and does the utmost for his coffee plantation to which he surrenders his life and his work. He is as comfortable spending long hard days in the field as he is at home. Not only does he tend his coffee plantation, he plants trees to protect his bushes from the wind and the harsh light. When necessary he can flex his muscle and bend his back to dig drainage ditches but he can also be subtle, even tender and thorough, when caring for his coffee nursery. |
In tiny Costa Rica, which barely surpasses three million inhabitants, fifty thousand men and women own, plant and tend more than one hundred thousand hectares of coffee. Dawn finds them in the fields. The first rays of the sun are reflected in the beads of perspiration that cover their faces and in the eyes filled of optimism. This determination to work has made it possible for Costa Rica producers to reap two million six hundred thousand sixty kilogram sacs every season. This unprecedented achievement is shared also by the half million costarricans that cooperate in the growers' chores and who, directly or indirectly, benefit from the activities surrounding coffee production. At the base of national coffee production the family is the most important single element. |
The undertakings of the Costa Rican coffee producer are varied and complex. They demand of him perseverance and know how and this equilibrium is attained and maintained in each one of the country's coffee farms. For a long time now, Costa Rican producers have used seeds only of improved hybrid varieties in addition to employing adequate pruning systems and strategies for pest control, without losing sight of the need to preserve the natural ecological balance. |
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