Organic coffee loses appeal for Nicaragua growers

"There is no marked difference in the market price for organic and non-organic coffee, and that is why the producers feel unmotivated to produce (organic)," Martha Stella Gutierrez, the executive director of Cafenica, a group of cooperatives that says it produces 90 percent of the country's organic coffees, told Reuters.

"It is something we are noticing and it worries us because we know that the production costs (of organic) are higher."

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