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A television news on Wednesday became the "savior "bean producers in Costa Rica, to ensure that hundreds of people go to their premises to buy grain, which is facing stiff competition from imported product.
A true open-air market was installed outside the Channel 7 television, in the west of the capital, where hundreds buyers waited in long lines to purchase, one of the essential components of the diet of Costa Ricans.
Telenoticias initiative, the news channel, was once the bean growers in the northern part of the country, grouped in the Association of Social Development Upala, virtually declared "broken" by the refusal of traders to buy grain. The organization said the government has authorized the importation of large quantities of beans at low prices from China and other countries with low production costs.
"I came here because I just help farmers. If the government did not help, someone has to do, "said one of the customers who responded to the call.
" The struggle to support our farmers will not end here, so tomorrow will come from many more cooperative small producers with a cargo of 600 quintals of beans that need to sell urgently, "said the director of Telenoticias, journalist Pilar Cisneros. AFP.
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