The Rural Development Administration aims to boost coffee production in Central and South America, the homeland of coffee

(Jeonju=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jin-bang = The Rural Development Administration announced that it will hold the 'Coffee Annual Evaluation' and 'Coffee Forum' in El Salvador from the 28th to the 30th (local time) to seek ways to increase coffee productivity in Central and South American countries and cooperate on agricultural technology to respond to climate change. This annual evaluation will be attended by a large number of experts in the Central and South American coffee field, including research directors from nine member countries of the Korea-Latin American Agricultural and Food Technology Cooperation Initiative (KoLFACI), researchers from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Research and Education (CATIE), and the El Salvador Coffee Institute (ISC). The experts from each country will share the results of their research on pre-harvest technologies to improve coffee productivity for small-scale farmers in Central and South America and new varieties to respond ...