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 Andrea Duran, a FUNDOCAFE store clerk, displays a pound of Café Gourmet from Manabao. Visitors can purchase roasted coffee directly from Fredy and Don Jose at about 40 pesos ($2.28) per pound. At FUNDOCAFE's store, the same coffee under a more marketable label sells for 65 pesos ($3.71). The same coffee is being sold in Santo Domingo at 75 pesos ($4.28) per pound and at $9.00 in Vermont.
"The standard of living of these 215 coffee growing families is improving because they are producing quality coffee and many of them are producing ecological and organic coffee. Important buyers from Japan and the U.S. are now buying directly through FUNDOCAFE and sometimes paying up to three times higher than the average coffee price. These coffee growers now know how to plant it, how to produce it and how to handle it. We are now moving forward into helping them sell their quality coffee."
- Frank Astacio, Executive Director of FUNDOCAFE.
URECAF is one of the most important coffee distributors and exporters in the Dominican Republic. FUNDOCAFE, our partner NGO, provides URECAF with green coffee. URECAF now exports coffee from Los Dajaos to Japan and the United States.
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