CECOVASA was founded in 1970 by five different cooperatives that joined together to export, obtaining best prices and to share expenses; nowadays they are 8 cooperatives that group 4581 producers.
La Central exports more than the 75% of coffee production from Tambopata and Inambar, in the East, in los Andes, Perú.
The production from both valleys represents the 2% of the total national.
The partners from Cecovasa are Quechua and Aymara that come from the high plateau from Titicaca Lake. This part with low productive ground is affected by El Niño, which is an important cause of immigration (like the one that in 1930 in the Bolivian hot tropical valleys, where they learnt to grow the coffee that 20 years later originated La Central).
So the coffee, that was born in Ethiopia and spread by Holland and French people, arrived to Cecovasa from Bolivia.
Aymaras colonized mainly the Tambopata valley; the Quichuans, for its part, the Inambari. The producers grow 2 coffee hectares. The production place at Cecovasa goes from 800 to 2000 metres above the sea level and a third part is next to the National Park Bahuaja Sonene deadening. The harvest takes place between March and July, sometimes until November.
Their goal is to promote the association, the leadership and the business excellence of their producers and cooperatives. For this reason they promote the business training and it provides training, technical assistance, credits, consumable goods acquisition, brand development, certificates, information, supplies, processes and special coffees marketing. With all these aspects it wants to increase the incomes and the quality life, as well as the life of their families.
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CECOVASA is an organisation from Valle de Sandia substantiated by the principles and the values of the cooperativism, committed with the eradication of extrem porverty, the Andian culture preservation and the environmental sustainability, where the most important aspects are: efficiency, originality and quality.
We invite you to visit their website for further details http://www.cecovasa.com.pe/