date:Feb 17, 2014
The Costa Rican Comptrollers Office approved last week a 20,000 million colones ($38 million) trust fund for coffee producers who were affected by the coffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix), known locally as roya. The funds had been offered by the GOCR since 2012 when the coffee rust started to cause serious damage to coffee production in different production areas. However, the funds had to be approved by the Legislative Assembly first. This part of the process resulted in Law 9153 of July 2013, whic