The high cost of hand-planting native seedlings prompted resistance from many farmers and ranchers, but they worked with ISA to find a cheaper alternative.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: His economic proposals, and that is the issue that most Mexicans are interested in, revolve around the campaign of public spending, a new overland shipping route that will rival the Panama Canal, high-speed railways connecting cities and the planting of a million acres of furniture-grade forest will provide the jobs.
The Colombian Coffee Federation said its country's high-end growers have begun planting corn and other crops as a way of diversifying incomes, and that most have been reinvesting by replacing old coffee plants with newer, more productive ones.