Central America Agriculture
Affected By Honduras Crisis: Ministers
Meeting in Costa Rica
Central American, Caribbean
and Mexican ministers of agriculture will
analyze on Friday in Costa Rica effects of
the Honduran political crisis on business
and the regional integrationist process.
The meeting will be attended by 17 ministers
of the sector and about 70 businesspeople
from the participating countries.
The Costa Rican Agriculture and Livestock (MAG)
Minister Javier Flores told press that they
would discuss issues such as the food
crisis, effects of the Honduran conflict on
trade and measures to foster the
integrationist process.
According to Flores, they would also deal
with taking advantage of opening the meat,
vegetable and agricultural markets of the
Caribbean Community such as sugar in Mexico,
and fishing and aquicultural products that
comply with the regulations by the European
Union.
Organized by MAG and its equivalent
secretariat in Mexico, this will be the
second meeting of its kind after that held
in Guatemala in mid 2006.
According to its promoters, the event will
also boost creating business alliances, as
well as studying investment opportunities in
fields such as milling, sugar industry,
production of ethanol, bovine cattle, and
port logistics.
Gloria Abraham, in charge of the MAG Unit
for Negotiations and Trade Policies,
confirmed that the meeting would promote
establishment of a Mesoamerican and
Caribbean Agribusiness Council (CAMC), as a
mechanism for negotiations and coordination. |
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