Portugal and Timor-Leste sign cooperation agreements in the agricultural and coffee sector

Published 2021년 11월 8일

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Portugal and Timor-Leste have signed agreements to continue their agricultural cooperation, with a focus on coffee development. This includes the continuation of the Quinta Portugal project, financed by Camões, IP, and aimed at improving coffee production in Timor-Leste, a country where half of coffee producers live below the poverty line due to low yields and the impact of rust. The cooperation will also involve the Coffee Rust Research Center of the Higher Institute of Agronomy of the University of Lisbon in studying the most virulent strains of orange rust, which are prevalent in Timor-Leste. This is seen as crucial for both Timor-Leste and the global coffee industry.

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Portugal and Timor-Leste signed today bilateral and technical-scientific cooperation agreements in the agricultural sector and for the development of coffee, the country's most exported non-oil product. The two texts, signed today in Dili by the ambassador of Portugal, José Pedro Machado Vieira, and by the Timorese minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pedro dos Reis, allow for the continuation of the Quinta Portugal project, in Aileu, and further research in the coffee sector . The Quinta Portugal Project, which was born in 2000, is the largest Portuguese bilateral cooperation project in the agriculture sector in Timor-Leste, and is currently financed by Camões, IP and implemented in partnership with the MAP. In addition to a general memorandum of understanding, a protocol was signed, to be implemented over three years, specifically aimed at the coffee sector. The cooperation protocol, which also involves the Coffee Rust Research Center (CIFC) of the Higher Institute of Agronomy ...

Source: Agro Portugal