AGEXPORT's goal: one million employments in four years

05 Sep '11

4 min read

"The strategy provides that Congress take a leading role in the promulgation of laws that promote economic growth in rural areas and the country, as well as the law that creates the Guatemalan Institute of Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health, the ratification of ILO Convention175, Law of English Language Learning, ICT Development Law and the Law of the National Port Authority, etc,” expressed Menendez.

In order to increase the export supply, export entrepreneurs propose to include rural area regions through the Supply Chain Project methodology and the promotion of specific programs for each of the export areas such as Hydro-biological, Apparel and Textiles, Agriculture, Crafts and Services, among others.

"In AGEXPORT we are convinced that prosperity in Guatemala can be achieved and poverty can be solved. Poverty is combated with employment, employment is created through production, production requires market access, market access is granted through exports, and these in turn are successful due to the competitiveness of a country and of its human resources. This is what we have to achieve, and Guatemalans do not only have to understand it but make it a reality,” expressed Menendez.

Guatemalan Exporters Association

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