Coffee consumption in Peru reaches 1.7 kilos per person per year.

(Agraria.pe) Currently, coffee consumption in Peru would reach 1.7 kilos per person per year, of which 1 kilo would correspond to national coffee and 700 grams to imported coffee, as indicated by the general manager of the National Coffee Board (JNC), Lorenzo Castillo Castillo. According to the interviewee, the increase in coffee consumption in our country in recent years responds to a process of promoting consumption that his represented entity initiated in 2006. “Almost 20 years have passed since a long promotional process and now we see how the consumption of high-quality coffee has increased in coffee-growing towns and districts, as well as in the cities,” he stated. He detailed that in coffee-producing areas, very well-equipped coffee shops have been installed, where producers have learned to taste this beverage. Furthermore, Castillo Castillo explains, young professionals, children of coffee growers, have been trained, linked to this crop as baristas, roasters, tasters, ...