WE ARE COSTEÑA S.A
A Costa Rican Agro-Export Company, 100% National Capital.
The production of melon and watermelon is intended for exporting to the European market to countries such as Great Britain, Holland and Belgium. The fruit is marketed in fresh presentation and ready for human consumption.
The optimum conditions of quality and innocuousness the melon owns, have allowed the company to develop and stay in the market strongly, and creating commercial relations with different European intermediaries and supermarkets as well.
For local markets, the company produces and commercializes rice during the Costa Rican rainy season, and this process has been stable from June to November. The varieties "Palmar 18" and "Cibu" are adapted to the method of sowing mechanized in dry rice.
HISTORY
Costeña S.A has its beginnings as a national family-owned company, founded more than 25 years ago initially dedicated to extensive livestock farming. In the 1990's, the farm started changing into a commercial activity, going from extensive livestock farming to melon cultivation.
It began with 300 hectares in the first season, 200 of which cultivated during the summer period, from November to May. Its main commercial activity is the production and export of melons, activitiy that represents the main job opportunities in the area of Caimital of Nicoya and its surroundings due to the large amount of employment it generates, decreasing the high percentage of migrations to other areas of the country.