Starbucks is eyeing to Costa Rica for development of coffee

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Starbucks opened for the first time in Costa Rica in the year 2012 and already has two cafes in the country.

Advisor and Director founder of the chain of coffee shops, Starbucks, is eyeing to Costa Rica, this time not for the opening of new premises, Howard Schultz chose Costa Rica to establish a laboratory where the aim is to develop new varieties of coffee. This will be done in a 600 acre estate, approximately 240 hectares of land located on the slope of Poás Volcano.

This global agricultural Center seeks to test new coffee blends that seek to improve the management of the land at the same time. The farm which is located in Costa Rica, will be part of its program known as Starbucks Coffee Trading Company, dedicated to the purchase of coffee around the world. He is expected that the final details of this transaction are concluded in the month of May.

The company U.S. Headquarters around the world, is currently in a process of expansion, including already it has a program in place to help the coffee producers in Costa Rica, Tanzania, Colombia and China, so they follow a series of practices known as coffee, in the interests of mitigating the effect of the change climate and guarantee the stable a quality grain supply.

The company opened its first Center of support for farmers in Costa Rica in 2004, ensuring that assistance on the ground not only allows you to constantly improve the grain but would raise the performance of the land and therefore the coffee production. The farm or as called the farm located in the volcano Poas allow Agronomists make new tests so their results can export to other places of culture.

Almost 100% coffee purchased the company comes from farms that host this program. Starbucks recorded the years undergone 13 $ 300 million, which brought him a profit of 1 380 million sales.

Posted by Costa Developers