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„These coffees were selected in the aid of the Cup of the Excellence, an event that is made for the first time in El Salvador and that has had good results in other countries of Central America, like Nicaragua and Guatemala. A total of 22 international and representing tasters of buying companies of coffee was in charge to describe products as the Salvadoran property. The experts assured that the best coffee El Salvador is in Santa Ana Three property of this department took to the presidential prize?Taza of the Excellence, by to have surpassed the 90 points in the qualification of the judges. The producers Everest, Alvarez Prunera and Compañi'a and Francisco Arturo Alvarez santanecas of Kilimanjaro, Malacara Rocks received the recognitions to produce the best Salvadoran coffees in the property Lot To and Malacara Lot C.“
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„Previously held in Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, the Cup of Excellence® is a country-wide tasting event that is designed to identify and promote the host country's best coffees through a series of blind tastings (called "cuppings") that are conducted by national and international coffee experts and evaluate every detail, from body and acidity to flavor and balance. Nicaraguan coffee growers of all sizes and from all regions were invited to submit samples for the 2004 Cup of Excellence®.“
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„In addition to the recent Honduras auction, El Salvador and Nicaragua farmers also held successful Cup of Excellence auctions this summer for their winning coffees. Between the three auctions, 85 coffee lots were sold to 23 U.S. companies, 22 European companies representing England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Spain, France, Norway and Germany, 19 Japanese companies and 1 Canadian company. The Cup of Excellence family is growing as an increasing array of international roasters support the efforts of quality farmers from a variety of countries.“
http://www.bsca.com.br/ news.php?lang=en&an_id=101
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Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com
„Troubled as El Salvador may be, the country remains the coffee champion of Central America with a crop last year of about 150,000 tons, worth 532 million dollars to an economy almost totally dependent upon this one commodity.“
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Central America Env. Projects Web Page
„The objective of this medium-sized grant is to boost the production of organically grown shade coffee in order to provide habitat for species (especially birds) that depend upon El Salvador's vastly reduced forest cover for survival. The project includes studies on shade coffee's impacts on biodiversity, extension services, education, development of bird-friendly coffee certification criteria, marketing campaign for bird-friendly coffee, monitoring and investments to enhance habitat quality and quantity.“
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„“We used to live in houses made of corn husks,” says Don Miguel Sifontes, president of a coffee cooperative in El Salvador that sells to Equal Exchange. “Now we have better work, better schools, homes of adobe, and a greater brotherhood of decision-makers.”“
http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith/ lwrproject.html
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