Writing of commissions of general assembly
of Santa Maria Yaviche
During years 40, 50 and 60's in our community were
cultivated mainly corn, frijol, grey hair of azucar for piloncillo and
existia a great diversity of fruit trees. At that time ningun
was not used agroquimico. Everything provenia of the Mother
Earth. Everything what consumia was natural. The system of
use of the Earth was traditional. Migratory agriculture was used
(to be rotating the Earth) to maintain the Earth fertility. The
production of corn and frijol was little. Thanks to it people
subsistia. Mantenia with interchange of obtained products.
Not existia even the agricolas product transaction in our
community. Everything was to subsist. Cafe existia as it
plants natural in the traspatios.
For the years 70's not existia even wagon, but people empezo to
occur to account of which cafe vendia very well and that
obtenia money.
With it some people already found out that Tanetze de Zaragoza
tapeworm many plantations of cafe by government programs. Then
some people resorted to this community by plants to seed them in the
community and with it empezo to eliminate great part of the natural
vegetation, considering that some parcels tenian a little cafe.
She is until 70's when arrives at the community a extensionista
(tecnico) promoting the culture from cafe and with it she arrives at
the community the gubermental program from the Mexican Institute from
the Cafe (Inmecafe). Plants were #***aed-refl mng but much
people distrusted and say our grandparents who many decian: "she
is that nothing but enganan to us, because Since the government is
going to come to gather ours cafe". Asi people so facil
nonacceptance cafe, but the tecnicos decian that tapeworm that to
seed.
But late the Inmecafe ofrecio fertilizing, receiving, ofrecia in
advance the payment of the harvests. Then the tecnicos decian
that it was necessary to seed with tecnicas, to eliminate the fruit
trees that habia in the parcels. This way we realized that I
eliminate a variety of Creole avocado. Much people I eliminate
parcels of corn, frijol and grey hair to seed cafe. He was epoca
of gold of cafe in our community. They were 80's. With it
people I incline by the commerce and begins to use the money.
They sell cafe, buy corn, frijol, clothes (the traditional
dresses are eliminated). All young one to marry tapeworm that to
seed with time his cafe.
At that time single the Inmecafe was in charge to buy cafe.
With this change the life of the community, because everything
veia with money.
But late they began to arise intermediary ("coyotes") that
bought cafe and they revendian it to Inmecafe, but by the end of 80's
and principles of 90's the collapse of prices occurs, reason why no
institution bought cafe, because habia disappeared the Inmecafe and
all the producers was at the mercy of the intermediarismo. This
way no longer habia movement in the field. Everything habia
paralyzed.
Then, like an alternative before these problems our community,
already habia organized with other eight towns forming the cooperative
"United Towns" and with it I manage myself
before the government with many jams, thus I settle a
dry benefit, but like always the single government support with
infrastructure without a tecnico support. The loss of cafe
seguia with $27 pesos by kilo of cafe parchment.
But this project I do not work for a long time, because there
were bad handlings of money from which they were opposite and from the
partners of not taking the process that exigia for cafe and for that
reason I work only 3 years. For this reason in years 94-95 the
producers of cafe began individually to sell the product with the
retailers with price of $30 pesos by kilo.
But by the 97-98 the price was decaying until year 2002 with a
price of $4 pesos by kilo. Before this situation the community
has not been able to find a solution to improve the price of cafe that
in previous years has been the sustenance of each family.