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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.

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