Description
Peru Cajamarca Fair Trade Organic
Praline, cooked citrus zest, and chocolate flavors with mellow sweetness and a creamy mouthfeel.
PeruNor
PeruNor is an exporter that works with APROSEM Café and Cocoa, an association of around 235 contributing farmers. These contributing farms all take special care to maintain Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and Organic certifications. They create natural barriers or purmas surrounding their farms to avoid contamination that would jeopardize these certifications. PeruNor aims to grow hand-in-hand with the region’s producers by working with new members to help them meet compliance for the variety of export seals they manage.
Around 90,000 hectares of coffee farmland in Peru is certified organic, and it is one of the places with the highest percentage of certified-organic exported coffee in the world. It is estimated that 25–30% of the smallholder farmers in Peru are members of democratically organized cooperatives and associations, making it easy to source FTO-certified lots.
Cajamarca
Cajamarca is a semi-dry, semi-cold, tropical highland of Peru with very fertile soil at high Andean mountain elevations. All of these factors contribute to the potential of specialty coffee production in the area, which is growing. Smallholder producers farm on 2-3 hectares of land, many of which practice organic farming. Most farmers in the area work independently, but the recent increase in cooperatives has been effective in increasing the quality of coffees produced in the area.
Farm | PeruNor |
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Process | Washed |
Variety | Catimor, Caturra, Bourbon, Typica |
Elevation | 1300-2200 MASL |
Region | San Ignacio, Cajamarca |
Country | Peru |
Harvest | June–September |
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