Honduras Jaguar

Description

COHORSIL, or La Cooperativa de Horticultores Siguatepeque Limitada 
was formed in 1980 by a group of 12 vegetable farmers. Their goal 
was to improve the quality of their produce through transparent 
administration and achievements to get more producers to adopt the 
same principles. Prior to the 1980's, the main crops that were being 
cultivated were vegetables in the nearby mountainous areas, but that 
had soon changed when the farmers looked to diversify their farms and 
began growing coffee. Due to the high altitudes of the farms, they 
found their coffee to have complex attributes. In 1989 the partners 
of COHORSIL began requiring the cooperative to market their coffee 
and create a coffee division. The desire of the coffee growers to 
export their coffee to the international community gave them the edge 
to maintain and improve the quality of their coffee.