Cusco: Promoting the renewal of coffee plantations with more than 180,000 seedlings in Calca and Paucartambo

The Regional Management of Agriculture of Cusco, through the Coffee Project, delivered more than 180,000 coffee seedlings (varieties Geisha, Castillo, and Bourbon), 400 fumigation backpacks, 20 tons of organic fertilizer, and 5 tons of phosphate rock, benefiting 27 productive associations of Yanatile (Calca), Challabamba, and Kosñipata (Paucartambo). The delivery aims to consolidate the positioning of Cusco specialty coffee in international markets and improve the regional and national economy through the generation of employment and foreign exchange. With the new seedlings, coffee farming families will renew the coffee plants, which will subsequently allow them to increase their income and face with greater resilience diseases such as yellow rust, which directly affects the coffee crop. The benefiting communities are located in the buffer zone of the Manu Biosphere Reserve, a strategic area where the promotion of sustainable agriculture also becomes a bet for environmental ...