Inauguration of the first National Coffee School in Nicaragua

The first National Coffee School in Nicaragua was inaugurated in the city of Ocotal, in the department of Nueva Segovia, bordering Honduras, which has the highest hills in the country, next to the 2,000 meters of height, informed the authorities today.

Managua, Nov 17 (EFE) .- The first National Coffee School in Nicaragua was inaugurated in the city of Ocotal, in the department of Nueva Segovia, bordering Honduras, which has the The highest hills in the country, close to 2,000 meters high, authorities reported today.

The now Escuela Nacional del Café had been operating for 13 years in Nueva Segovia, where special coffees and export are grown, under the name of Coffee School for Nueva Segovia, explained to journalists the director of the Agroindustrial Technological Center, Lizandro Borges.

Now "it has been decided that this school is a national benchmark for coffee, where we will be working according to the production of the coffee sector," he continued. Borges.

With this National School of Coffee is expected to "improve the knowledge of producers, and that this knowledge allows better quality and productivity," he said.

National School of Coffee had an investment of 1.7 million córdobas (about 55,537 dollars).

It will have a capacity to house 400 students to train general technicians in coffee agroindustry and courses in derivatives of the subject.

In the opening ceremony were present the Local Government authorities, producers, students and managers of the National Technological Institute (Inatec).

Coffee is one of the three main export products of Nicaragua.

In the first ten months of the current coffee harvest, between October 2016 and July 2017, exports of this product from Nicaragua totaled 432.9 million dollars, up from 348.4 million in the same period in the cycle number previous.

Coffee in Nicaragua has as main markets the United States, Venezuela, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Italy, Finland, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, France and Australia.