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Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa, inside the clean room where the final product is sorted, cleaned, checked and bagged. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are excombatents of the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
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