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Fishermen boats
Fishing with the net (El Diario de Hoy)
in El Salvador is developed mainly at the level of
domestic consumption. Shrimp is an export product
that was relatively important economically, but which
has now declined.
Apart from the traditional fishing area, there is great
potential for the development of the sport of fishing,
such as swordfish fishing competitions. Moreover,
there are market opportunities for aquaculture; the
farming of ocean and freshwater plants and animals
for human consumption
MAIN COMPANIES
ASOCIACIÓN DE BENEFICIADORES Y
EXPORTADORES DE CAFÉ DE EL SALVADOR
- ABECAFE (COFFEE ASSOCIATION OF
PRODUCERS AND EXPORTERS OF EL
SALVADOR)
Marcelino Samayoa
Manager
Col. Escalón, San Salvador
Activity: Association
Date of creation: 1961
La Asociación de Beneficiadores y Exportadores
del Café (The Coffee Association of Producers
and Exporters) of El Salvador was created in 1961
because of the international coffee agreements
that restricted production quotas of coffee. The
association was created to allocate quotas to
partners that limited the growth of the coffee sector.
Today it has 20 partners, representing 70% of the
country’s coffee exportation.
It is one of the 4 associations that is part of Fundación
Salvadoreña para Investigaciones del Café(the
Salvadoran Foundation for Coffee Investigation)
(PROCAFE) and covers coffee related issues. The
other three are la Unión de Cooperativas de El
Salvador (the Cooperative Union of El Salvador)
(UCAFES); Coffee Association of El Salvador and
la Unión de Cooperativas de la Reforma Agraria,
Beneficiadores y Exportadores (UCAPROBEX).
(the Agrarian Reform Cooperative Union, Producers
and Exporters) (UCAPROBEX).
ABECAFE is an advocate for free enterprise
and does not seek to encourage business via
tax exemptions. Together with the other three
associations, it defends all the institutions where
they are represented and participates in the ongoing
negotiations for the establishment of a free trade
agreement with Europe.
“The country’s main resource is its people; it’s
worth it to work with them, because they are
inventive and hardworking”
Marcelino Samayoa, ABECAFE Manager
SAN JULIÁN, S.A. DE C.V. - AGROSANIA,
S.A. DE C.V.
Lic. Luis Roberto Fernández M.
Director
51ª Av. Sur 1738,
Col. Jardines de Montserrat, San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2211 0303
Fax: (+503) 2211 0304
Julian@sal.gbnet.cc
www.agrosania.com
Agriculture and Fisheries