15% Increase in Agricultural Transactions

Luis Arevalo, BAGSA General Manager, said a major achievements this year has been to include all the country’s productive sectors and to have passed the $600 million in transactions.

According to an article in Elnuevodiario.com.ni, "Over 2011, BAGSA established itself as the main agricultural business center offering an array of important services to the productive sector and exporters, one of these services is its innovative e-commerce platform. 'We are closing the year with a flourish, with the launch of an electronic trading platform that will promote growth and development of operations nationally and internationally, through an automated communication system", said Arevalo.

Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni

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