costa rica agriculture

Costa Rica will maintain its third country status with the European Union (EU), after the agency began an audit in 2016 to evaluate the system of accreditations of organic products…

Farmers seek to remind Costa Ricans that Creole garlic is much better in quality than the garlic imported from China. Ricardo Quirós Garita is one of the farmers disseminating garlic…

Costa Rica News – The European Union has audited and certified Costa Rican procedures for “plants for planting,” those grown in Costa Rica to be exported to Europe. Costa Rica was…

Costa Rica News – The value of exports from the agricultural sector remains slightly as the main generator of foreign exchange in the country, despite strong growth in the last four…

Costa Rica News – Thousands of hectares of Costa Rican forests have been destroyed to make way for multinational pineapple farms, threatening “irreversible damage to the country,” according to the Costa…

Costa Rica News – Costa Rica’s policy promoting sustainable forestry while maintaining food production has made the country a role model to those fighting deforestation, according to a report issued Tuesday…

Costa Rica News – I was sitting there on my back porch listening to the howler monkeys in the distance when I had an urge to get a banana.  The…

Costa Rica News – The growing use of pineapple containers to smuggle drugs into Europe is pushing up shipping costs for Costa Rican exporters.