Peru is one of the world’s top exporters of specialty coffee and fine chocolates, which have won the country numerous prizes in international competitions. While coffee exports do traditionally represent a much larger scale, Peruvian cacao products have an incredible quality that many world chocolatiers now consider some of the finest in the world

These fine products are grown in micro lots and multiple climatically-unique  regions. There are flavor maps that highlight the incredible variety that exists within Peru. Some of these flavours come from high altitudes in Northern Peru, while many others can be found at lower elevations, whereAndes meet  the Amazon jungle.

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Export Data

Peruvian exports of green coffee reached $635 million in 2019, while cacao products were $293.7 million. The coffee exports correspond almost entirely to the Arabica variety, while in cacao, the key products are cacao beans ($138 million), cacao butter ($84 million) and chocolates ($24.5 million).

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Exporters

Top Peruvian coffee exporters are Perales Huancaruna ($93.5 million in 2019), Olam Agro Peru ($70.4 million), Procesadora del Peru ($50 million), Compañía Internacional del Cafe ($44.7 million) and Cenfrocafe ($31.3 million).

Regarding cacao products, Peruvian exporters of cacao beans are Cafetalera Amazónica ($21 million in 2019), Sumaqao ($17.8 million), Amazonas Trading Peru ($16.7 million) and Exportadora Romex ($15.9 million); in cacao butter are Machu Picchu Foods ($ 59 million), Exportadora Romex ($13 million) and Compañía Nacional del Chocolates de Peru ($11.6 million), and in chocolates are Machu Picchu Foods ($14.9 million), Arcor de Peru ($2.3 million) and Compania Nacional de Chocolates de Peru ($2.3 million).

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