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Peru, south America country, is sixth biggest producer of coffee. The biggest exporter of organic coffee in the world also Peru. They keep developing the quality of its product, niche markets and always to find the best ways to solve any problem which can be barriers of growth.

Farmers has been encouraged by Peru’s government to plant coffee rather than coca. While coca is still on the rise in Peru — it is growing at a much slower clip than coffee.

In this year, Peru wants to ship 5.8 million 46-kilogram bags of coffee,and it would be about 15 percent rise from 2006, the last on-year crop.

The Specialty coffees (organic, fair-trade, kosher, and even ones raised with an eye toward protecting bird life) have led the surge. They comprise 30 percent of coffee exports, up from a pittance a decade ago.

Organic coffee is pretting comfort in Peru, a country with little history of high-tech, large-scale farming, said Paul Rice, president and chief executive of TransFair USA, an organization that certifies fair-trade products.

Many growers cannot afford chemical fertilizers, so growing organic, which pays a premium over conventional coffee, comes at a relatively low cost. Also, poor producers tend to work small plots with limited technology, which means their coffee is hand-picked and sun-dried.

Global warming pushes to pick coffee earlier

Now let`s head on another tragic news. As we know global warming has made temperatures warmer, Rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns. They are changing historic trends in the coffee season. Because of climate change, farmer has to pick coffee earlier. The climate change is “generating complete productive disorder”.

Traditionally, Peruvian coffee growers start picking their coffee in April, some of them are six months before the global arabica harvest. Its flip season has given Peru, the world’s sixth largest exporter of coffee, a unique comparative advantage. But if season always continues to move earlier, farmers worry they would be lose their privileged position.

“Producers can no longer make well-laid plans. Calculations are not the same,” said farmer. “The uncertainty is very difficult to deal with.”

For other region, climate change might make new land available to farm coffee, but for Peru it could also expose the crop to unusual precipitation and atypical levels of humidity. Peruvian growers have said the scarcity of rains this year in some coffee-producing areas is the result of rising global temperatures.

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