Wood Coffee Cups Instituto Mexicano popular del Cafe

Vintage Wood Coffee Cups and Saucers from the Instituto Mexicano del Cafe.
Coffee plant design painted on cups and saucers which are marked on the bottom with the logo for the Instituto Mexicano del Cafe.
Cup measures 2 1/2" tall x 3 1/4" in diameter
Saucer measures 5 1/2" across
Each cup has some minor imperfections which were part of the wood they are made from and minor crazing but neither will affect use.
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The Mexican Coffee Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Cafe) ——INMECAFE, was a government regulated agency, responsible for providing technical assistance, administrating the Mexican export quotas of popular coffee, and keeping coffee price high and stable in the market. Because of the INMECAFE efforts to integrate new land into coffee cultivation, coffee productivity rapidly increased. As the result, the three main states, Chiapas, Veracruz and Oaxaca, contributed 73% of the total amount of agriculture land for coffee production.

Between 1970 and 1982, the Mexican agriculture land devoted to coffee production increased by 141,203 hectares and national coffee production has grown approximately 6,000 tons of green coffee per year.[5] In addition, INMECAFE encouraged the use of agrochemical technologies and the organization provided technical assistance to farmers in order to achieve higher productivity.[4][5] Respectively, 50% of coffee cultivation in Chiapas, 22% in Veracruz, and 22% in Oaxaca has accepted the technical assistance from INMECAFE. INMECAFE's technical assistance covered approximately 28% of coffee production regions in Mexico in 1982.

In 1989 INMECAFE disintegrated after president Carlos Salinas de Gortari declared that the Mexican government would give up control of its coffee market while they respond to the World Bank and other international financial institutions' construction adjustments.