Guatemala News » Alta Verapaz News Guatemala » Alta Verapaz » Culture: Cultivating cardamom: Guatemalan farmers and growing communities
News channel or source: https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/cardamom-guatemalan-farmers-communities
Published on: Thursday 19 May 2022
For many people in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, cardamom farming is a family business. In rural Cobán, where Francisco Pop was born and raised, his father taught him how to sow and tend the crop. “I know ...
News Guatemala » Alta Verapaz » Culture: Mercy Corps and Twinings to Improve Cardamom Production in Northern Guatemala
News channel or source: https://www.mercycorps.org/press-room/releases/improving-cardamom-production-Guatemala
Published on: Monday 23 March 2020
Three-year program will strengthen cardamom value chain and create a producers’ association to help families across 80 communities in Alta Verapaz lift themselves out of poverty “More than 80% of ...