Coffee Pickers Needed
If you are looking for
work, to earn extra
money or beat the
boredom of daily life,
the Instituto
Costarricense del Café (Icafé)
has put out the word
that it needs some
45.000 foreign coffee
picjers for the
2007-2008 harvest.
In total, between
175.000 and 200.000
people will be directly
employed in this year's
coffee harvest to pick
some 2.6 million "fanegas"
of coffee, according to
a press bulleting put
out by the Icafé,
The "fanega" is a unit
of dry capacity for
grain equivalent to 46
kilograms.
The annual coffee
harvest begins in
November and extends to
February.
The Ministerio de
Trabajo (Labour
Ministry) also predicts
the need to hire another
87.000 foreign workers
for construction and
agricultural jobs for
the coming year. Manual
labourers from Cuba,
Honduras, Mexico and
Colombia are favoured,
according to Labour
sources.
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