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Coffee
is the agricultural product that defined Salvadoran culture; the
economic resource that transformed the social history of our country
and the source of employment that strengthens and protects life
in El Salvador.
Since the first coffee export in 1865, coffee has paced El Salvador’s economic activity and continues to do so even now, when the relative importance of the sector within the economy has decreased due to the sector’s contraction and the diversification of the economy, especially after the peace agreements were signed more than ten years ago. Coffee’s importance for El Salvador has been changing over the last years, from being the backbone of our economy to a social source of stability and now, more than ever, it has become the last ecological refuge. In other words, Coffee is the ecological currency of El Salvador, the agricultural product that went from being our economy’s main resource to being the economic resource that sustains life. |
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