Norandino plans to install a processing plant to obtain cocoa and chocolate coverage in Peru

Published 2021년 3월 31일

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The Cooperativa Agraria Norandino is planning to invest US $ 1 million in constructing a new processing plant to produce cocoa and chocolate products. The plant is expected to be located in the same building as the existing cocoa paste processing plant in Piura. The cooperative, which currently works with 600 cocoa farmers and hopes to expand to include those from Ecuador, is aiming for higher prices and returns by producing final products rather than just powder and butter. The new plant is projected to have a capacity of 4,000 tons per year and is expected to take a year to install. However, there are obstacles to importing organic cocoa from Ecuador due to Peru's requirement for fumigation, which contradicts the organic category.

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(Agraria.pe) The Cooperativa Agraria Norandino plans to install a processing plant to obtain cocoa and chocolate coverage, whose investment would amount to US $ 1 million. This was indicated by its commercial manager, Santiago Paz López, who pointed out that they are in the design stage of the plant and its installation would take a year, since it only remains to buy the machinery. He added that the new plant will be located in the same building where its cocoa paste processing plant is located, that is, in the industrial zone of Piura. Santiago Paz highlighted that cocoa coverage and chocolate are final products and therefore have the highest prices and the best returns. "Powder and butter are another process, we do not explore it because their prices are cheap in the market and that is not the priority for us," he said. At another time, he said that for this year his client plans to export 2,700 tons of cocoa (2,000 tons of cocoa beans and 700 tons of cocoa paste). Last year ...

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