Guatemalan Agro-Industry Unveils 2021 Plan

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Otto Kuhsiek, president of CAMAGRO, noted that over 1.6 million jobs depend on agriculture, of which 81% are located in rural areas, half of them in family companies and the rest in large-scale, high productivity companies.

Carla Caballeros, executive director of the chamber, told Prensalibre.com that “one of the biggest issues of rural development is that 90% of these companies use their own family capital, and less than 5% of the banking loans are earmarked for this sector”.

Source: prensalibre.com

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