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Though not visible, the coffee plant promised by the government of Venezuela is coming on stream, Dominica\u2019s Ambassador to Venezuela and ALBA Coordinator Dr. Philbert Aaron told Dominica News Online.<\/p>\nThough not visible, the coffee plant promised by the government of Venezuela is coming on stream, Dominica\u2019s Ambassador to Venezuela and ALBA Coordinator Dr. Philbert Aaron told Dominica News Online.<\/p>\n
Aaron said that while a definite time cannot be set for completion, efforts are underway to set up the plant.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t see physical construction but… it is important to note that what we\u2019re trying to do is establish a whole industry. So the physical plant is just a part of it and there is a lot of planning work and consultation going on. Some of what\u2019s going on are technical plans, I mean, specifics to construction and planning,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, those are not visible right now but I can assure you that I have been part and the Ministry of Agriculture have also been party to ongoing discussions with the authorities in Venezuela and they\u2019re not just public operatives. It\u2019s a mix in Venezuela of a\u00a0 number of entities – private sector, farmers, cooperative groups, transporters and others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Aaron asked persons to bear in mind that the project is a new, sophisticated and complex undertaking where there will be \u201cthe rebuilding of a whole industry from marketing, sales production, distribution, processing, so it\u2019s a ticklish operation at that point\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the kind of operation that is really new and its is basically more sophisticated than others so it will be a little bit more taxing… There\u2019s so many parts to this thing beyond\u00a0 just putting up a factory, a processing plant that we expected to be challenging,\u201d he told DNO.<\/p>\n
In May, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was officially been signed between the government of Dominica and Venezuela for work to begin on a coffee processing plant and the rehabilitation and expansion of coffee acreages in Dominica.<\/p>\n
Among the responsibilities of Dominica under the MOU, 50,000 square feet or 1.5 acres had to be provided to establish the coffee processing plant. This area of land had been cleared and made available at One Mile, Portsmouth.<\/p>\n
Dominica also had to provide a slab of approximately 20,000 square feet to install the structure as well as appropriate fencing and provide water and basic utilities and land available for demonstration and training of coffee producers.<\/p>\n
Venezuela will produce the design for the plant, the construction of the shed supply and is responsible for the installation and commencement of coffee processing. They will also provide training for locals in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though not visible, the coffee plant promised by the government of Venezuela is coming on stream, Dominica\u2019s Ambassador to Venezuela and ALBA Coordinator Dr. Philbert Aaron told Dominica News Online. Aaron said that while a definite time cannot be set…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n