An organization of Peruvian coffee producers today announced the completion next May the first national championship baristas, name given to experts in preparation of coffee in bars and restaurants to encourage mass consumption of the drink. Peru is the world's leading producer of organic coffee and last year exported $ 880 million of various varieties of grain, although domestic consumption is one of the lowest in the region.
While in Brazil are often consuming four kilos per person per year in Peru, individual consumption amounts to 500 grams per year, ie about 42 cups of coffee annually, according to the Central Organization of Coffee and Cocoa Production in Peru.
"The barismo not very positioned in the Peruvian market" because there is no coffee culture in the country, told Efe Gaby Oblitas, representative of the Central Coffee and Cocoa, organizer of the championship, to be held between 11 and 13 May .
coffee chains that exist in Peru offer their workers training too short to not become baristas, said Oblitas.
She said that as schools have developed a food court, bartenders and sommeliers in Peru, they want the barismo reach a high level of training because "improper preparation of coffee (roasted and blends) can take the trash the work of the producers " in the field.
For that reason, the Central coffee has invited the world runner barismo 2010, the Guatemalan Raul Rodas, to offer a training workshop in Lima with a view to the national championship, which organizers estimate will attract about 60 participants.
The winner of the national tournament, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation Agency USAID United States, will represent Peru at the world championships barismo to be held in Colombia, from 2nd to 5th of June.
Oblitas Her organization brings together 9,130 \u200b\u200bsmallholder coffee and cocoa settled in the province of Chandigarh, in the jungle of JunÃn Region in central Peru.
cultivation and production of these grains represent jobs directly and indirectly to two million people in Peru, according to estimates by organizers. EFE
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