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Asociación Peruana de Productores de Cacao (APPCACAO)
National association of cacao cooperatives that represents small producers before the government, leads cooperation projects to raise the productivity and added value of organic cacao, and connects its member cooperatives with buyers and quality contests.
How can APPCACAO help your biobusiness?
- What it offers
representation and advocacycooperation projects for member cooperativesconnection with buyerscacao contests and fairs
- At what stage
- I'm already operating
- Who it serves
- Associations and cooperatives
- Products
- Cacao
- Where it works
- All of PeruWith documented presence in: San Martín, Piura, Amazonas, Tumbes
How do you access APPCACAO?
- Can you apply directly?
- Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
- Do you need a business that already operates?
- Yes
- How hard is it to access?
- Access: no data
- Do you pay or co-fund?
- To be agreed
- Where does the money come from?
- Blended
Mapping classification: It brings together cacao cooperatives and channels projects with Swiss cooperation and the Regional Government of San Martín. The sources do not say how a cooperative joins or what it pays, hence no data on complexity.
Who does APPCACAO overlap with?
Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.
Sources and references
Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.
At the opening of the 17th International Cacao and Chocolate Fair 2026, its president called for funding to implement the National Cacao Program, a crop grown by more than 100,000 families in Peru. Agraria.pe: APPCacao exige asignación de recursos para implementar el Programa Nacional del Cacao
With its Bio Andino II Project, Agroideas and the Tumbes Regional Directorate of Agriculture, it brought together investment funds, technology transfer and phytosanitary training for the APROAZ association (Zarumilla), which shipped 5,250 kg of organic cocoa to France. Agraria.pe: El cacao de Tumbes rumbo a Europa: productores de Zarumilla concretan envío a Francia
Three of its member cooperatives (Norandino, Approcap and Aprocam) were among the 50 best cacaos in the international Cacao of Excellence 2025 competition, out of 191 samples from 45 countries. Agraria.pe: Tres cacaos peruanos se ubicaron entre los 50 mejores cacaos del mundo
It leads the Innova Cacao Sostenible project, launched on November 28, 2024 in Juanjuí (San Martín) with 11 cacao cooperatives, support from the Swiss Economic Cooperation (SECO) and the Regional Government of San Martín and collaboration from Helvetas, aiming to raise organic cacao productivity by 30%. Agraria.pe: Lanzan proyecto para impulsar el cacao orgánico sostenible