Nestled in the mountains of central Honduras, the “El Encanto” coffee farm is tackling this year’s harvest with half the pickers it needs. | AFP
Marquez planted five hectares of coffee that now needs harvesting. But he has only 20 of the 40 pickers he needs.
But he has little choice. A security guard for the rest of the year, a job at which he earns $429 per month, he took the day off to join his family coffee picking. Some 250,000 hectares of coffee plantations are shared between more than 100,000 mainly small-scale producers. But since a clampdown on critics and the opposition following 2018 protests that were violently put down, more and more Nicaraguans are leaving for shores further afield.
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