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Executive director for the Puerto Rico Tourism Business, Ingrid Rivera Rocafort, has announced the start of the agency's Agricultural Tourism Program with the official certification of Hacienda Tres Ángeles in the municipality of Adjuntas, situated at the Island's central mountainous region.
Agricultural Tourism is a kind of sustainable tourism, in which the visitor has the chance to find out about agricultural locations, tasks, nearby goods, native foods and the region's everyday life, as effectively as the destination's cultural heritage and traditions.
Agricultural Tourism also gives an further earnings to the nearby agricultural market place.
"With the start of this Program, we strengthen our commitment to stimulate the improvement of tourism niches primarily based on distinct components of our Island, such as our create and the function of our folks. "Both are the pillars of agricultural tourism and impact the economic and social sustainability of farmers, the nearby tourism business and the financial improvement of the Island as a complete," stated the PRTC executive director.
Hacienda Tres Ángeles, founded by young Puerto Rican entrepreneur, Juan Meléndez, is an example of the potential and effect that the Agricultural Tourism niche has on the nearby tourism business.
With a total investment of $ 516,192, including a contribution of $ 242,435 from the Division of Agriculture, Meléndez started the one hundred acre farm, dedicating 90 per cent of the land to grow coffee, and the rest to cultivate oranges and plantains.
The hacienda already exports its coffee goods to the United States and Europe, whilst also supplying the regional market.
"Today, the infrastructure design of this stunning plantation houses an ecological operation that clearly demonstrates the effort of a family committed to the land.
"With the objective of rescuing our coffee business and rising our regional coffee production, the Department of Agriculture has offered several incentives and has signed cooperation contracts with coffee nurseries to enable the production of 16 million coffee trees.
"Hacienda Tres Ángeles is a family business that joined in the effort to rescue our mountain coffee, and its owner, farmer Juan Meléndez and his household, motivate their staff and other coffee growers to improve production of this precious grain to take it back to the honourable positioning its entitled to", mentioned Myrna Comas, secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture.
This agro-tourist hacienda represents the creation of 16 jobs for the management and maintenance of the plantation, aside from the 85 coffee collectors in the course of harvest season (from September via December) and expects to generate eight new direct jobs and 12 indirect jobs, for a total of 100 jobs that will help enhance the Island's economy.
Conscious about the growth possible that the agricultural tourism market has for the Island, the Puerto Rico Tourism Business developed the Agricultural
Tourism Program, below the sustainability principle.
The PRTC consolidated an advisory council to establish the Agricultural Tourism Guide, while collaborating with the PRTC's Sustainability Tourism Division.
"Today we celebrate that the inauguration of the System is a reality with the official certification of Hacienda Tres Ángeles, as the very first certified plantation by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company's Agricultural Tourism Plan.
"Soon we'll certify other plantations in the municipalities of Las Marías, Yauco, Jauyuya, Ponce and Maricao, amongst other individuals," said the executive director.
"With the creation of this Program we are providing a new increase to job creation, and at the exact same time we are strengthening Puerto Rico's image worldwide as a 5-star location," concluded Rivera Rocafort.
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