All-Time High Coffee Export From CCT

Cooperativa Cafe Timor (CCT) is exporting $12 million-worth of coffee this year­its highest production level so far­after buying 18,000 metric tons of coffee cherry from farmer members.

USAID is supporting CCT through the Timor Economic Rehabilitation Program implemented by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA). In early 2008, USAID launched a public-private partnership with a major U.S. trade and investment company, Cooperative Business International, to further help the 22,000 coffee farmers’ who are members of this cooperative to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of the international coffee market. (September 16, 2008)

Ermera Online - www.buildingmarkets.org

The Peace Dividend Trust Verification team has completed the first stage of surveying businesses in Ermera District. 39 of 84 businesses are now online.

The results can be found online with a click.

One of the verification team Baptista da Silva, interviews Carlos Ximenes Babo in Ermera old town. Business name is EDM (Ermera Tuan). Date interview 16, July 08. Business sector Foodstuff and transportation services.

While the heart of Ermera's economy is coffee....

..... you can also find a range of services in the local marketplace. Did you know that Ermera Villa has a courier service? Oficina Nalmorena near the Church provides courier and messenger services. A very useful service indeed for a high mountain region with poor roads.

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