• Coffee grains. Photo: ANDINA/ Archivo.

• Lima, Jul. 14 (ANDINA). With 75000 certified cultivation hectares, Peru is the first producer country of organic coffee in the world, and has many opportunities to grow due to the high demand for this product in international markets, the president of the National Board of Coffee, Cesar Rivas Peña, said.

  He noted that its production is mainly in Chanchamayo, Satipo, San Martin, La Convencion, Sandia, Quillabamba, San Ignacio and Rodriguez de Mendoza regions, among others.

  The target markets for Peruvian organic coffee are the United States, Japan and the countries of the European Union, which get 99 percent of the production of this grain, the official said.

  He said other countries in the region like Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia produce organic coffee but in lower amounts that do not represent a risk for Peruvian production.

  He recalled that some months ago, the organic coffee produced in Sandia valleys was chosen as the world's best special coffee among 139 samples at the 22nd Annual Exposition & Symposium of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, which took place in the United States.

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