A workshop on developing Coffee production [Archives:2004/751/Business & Economy]

Fifty specialists are to gather in a workshop in Sana'a on 12-14 July to study available potentials for the development of coffee growing, marketing and necessary methods to improve chances of competition of this product in external markets.
Premises of the workshop, to be sponsored by the college of Agriculture of Sana'a University, would be focusing on gathering accurate information on present reality of coffee cultivation in Yemen with regard to volume of production, ways of marketing and drawing up an five-year plan, implementable during the next years.
Discussing will also touch on deepened study of the major impediments precluding increase of Yemeni Coffee production based on studies conducted in this field in previous years.
The workshop is the product of efforts exerted by many parties, among them the “Coffee administration”” at the ministry of agriculture and irrigation