- Israel Gonzalez Had they made so much money, that they retired? Now, it's because they were broke every year. And is not tenable. When the price of your coffee or your farm level is controlled. There's nothing you can do at all.Yes you can do it. You can say if you have-- but again, usually they know only Spanish, no bilingualism. No high level of education. But with that you could say hey wait a minute.I'm going to produce a great coffee, market it, and the demand is there. We did. We don't know much of anything on marketing but we have a quality product that we present properly and we can't even keep up with the demand-- but how many of coffee growers can and would do that.I mean as far as being able to do it of course anybody can do it for you if you decide to. I mean I'm not saying you need a college education. No. If you can't sell your coffee profitably pay somebody to design for you. We know, we pay for label design, we pay for marketing.You know--teach me how to market this product, what niche market do I follow, find out etc. - Domenico Celli It's strange to think that that's the problem because there's an abundance of people researching . - Israel Gonzalez I mean I can't even keep up with with publications and I like to read all I can that is directed to me, to my needs or hatever it may be. but the research is emense - Domenico Celli It seems so obvious that for this field, any research that is done should be done and oriented towards the people and communities that it's intended to serve. - Israel Gonzalez Yeah! - Domenico Celli And to do that-- when you're doing anything or conducting any research you should always be bringing your self back to the question of what this actually means in reality for people for people in the industry. - Israel Gonzalez Yeah. And then how are the results going to be disseminated, applied or whatever here. - Domenico Celli There should be equal if not greater emphasis on analyzing and putting in putting effort into making sure you have higher adoption rates of things that are proven to help people. - Israel Gonzalez I doubt it. - Domenico Celli Like, according to what you said for example, the fungus--the adoption rates were low if not nonexistent. - Israel Gonzalez Nothing happened! - Domenico Celli And yet despite the fact that it was a legitimate thing that was researched and proven that it could help alleviate this problem. - Israel Gonzalez But the point is it is a beautiful project for a professor like the one from today. He did it and you know he's bright , and he's done it. Yeah, wonderful. What an idea: every faemer can produce his or her own bavaria basciana. - Israel Gonzalez Wow! - Israel Gonzalez But its not as simple as that. First you need, even for a minor little laboratory you need to know how to handle a laboratory.You need that time, the investment you need to know the equipment for application methodology. - Domenico Celli And you need knowledgeable people who are actually going to go and speak to the farmers to trainand educate them. I'll tell you, I was taken in by the project. I participated in the two tests of the farm and everything. In fact I don't even think they ever gave me a report or told me look, you can find the report or such and such on the study. - Israel Gonzalez Puerto Rico has lived a delusional political status for 50 years. Well for a hundred years actually and it continues. Like we said, this is a microcosm of what's going on at every level of government in Puerto Rico. - Israel Gonzalez Exactly, its so sad. I don't know how, there has been so much socialist thinking.