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Article: Japan heads for Honduras. (Honduras coffee popular in Japan)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Coffee from Honduras is becoming more and more popular in Japan.
Except for Nicaragua, Honduras is the largest of the Central American republics, but it is also the least populated - smaller even than San Salvador, which is less than one-fifth of its side. Besides a narrow coastal strip along the Pacific, Honduras is primarily mountainous, with a volcanic ash plateau and basins between 900 to 1,400 meters high.
As one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere and the most indigent in Central America, Honduras needs all the help it can get. Forty-five percent of the land is forest and only 16% is arable. Bananas are the nation's main export ...