Piura, Peru: producers manage to export 21 tons of cotton to Thailand despite pandemic

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tallán-Chusís Multiple Services Agrarian Cooperative (Costach) in Piura, Peru, has successfully exported 21 tons of Peruvian pima cotton to Thailand, marking the second international shipment of the cooperative since the pandemic began. The first shipment of 90 bales, also containing about 21 tons, was sent to Germany. Costach, the only active cotton marketing and exporting cooperative in Peru, has been aided by the + Algodón Perú project, a South-South Cooperation initiative promoted by the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Brazilian Agency for Cooperation (ABC), and the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri). The cooperative's producers have also received training from the Latin American Integration Association (Aladi) and the United Nations on improving technical assistance and rural extension.