Coffee production has played a key role in Costa Rica’s history and continues to be important to the country’s economy.In 2006, coffee was Costa Rica’s number three export, after being the number one cash crop export for several decades. In 1997, the agriculture sector employed 28 percent of the labor force and comprised 20 percent of Costa Rica’s total GNP.

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