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Peruvian coffee is mild with less acidity than neighboring countries, mostly Arabica grown at high altitudes. It’s a popular choice for blended and flavored coffee drinks. Coffee cooperatives provide education and fair prices for farmers. Peru is the world’s largest producer of organic coffee.
Coffee grown and processed in Peru is generally mild in nature, with less acidity than most coffees from neighboring countries, such as Colombia and Brazil. The majority of Peruvian coffee is Arabica, often grown at high altitudes in conditions conducive to growing the beans. Peru is one of the top ten coffee producing countries and a major exporter of organic coffee.
Peruvian coffee usually has a mild aroma and flavor that makes the beans a popular choice for blended coffee blends and artificially flavored coffee drinks. The delicate nature of brewed coffee allows for artificially and naturally flavored oils to be added to Peruvian coffee to create beverages that are not dominated by the coffee’s natural aroma. Beans grown in Peru create a beverage similar to one made from Colombian coffee beans, although the texture of Peruvian coffee is not as full as Colombian coffee.
Coffee has been grown in Peru since the 18th century, with little change in the method of growing and selling the beans taking place prior to the 20th century. Most of Peru’s coffee farmers hold small farms of around 5 hectares where small crops of coffee are grown and the beans are processed before being sold to international buyers. In small towns near the main coffee-growing regions of the Chanchamayo Valley and Cuzco, farmers transport their crops in sacks to be sold at unofficial coffee markets. Coffee buyers purchase a farmer’s crop and blend the beans as they are transported to the coast to be sold around the world.
In the mid-20th century, Peruvian coffee farmers began coming together to form cooperatives to negotiate a fair price for the crops and cut out the middlemen who sell coffee to coffee producers. Coffee cooperatives also provide education to their farmers on how to grow and become certified to produce organic coffee. With the assistance of grants from fair trade organizations, Peru has become the world’s largest producer of organic coffee.
There are over 110,000 farmers growing Peruvian coffee, and beans are the country’s main agricultural export. Coffee exports accounted for about 2 percent of the South American country’s national economy in 2011. The majority of Peruvian coffee is grown using high-quality Arabica beans grown in shady conditions at high altitudes, between about 3,300 and 5,900 feet (1,000 and 1,800 meters).
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