TRADE AND MARKET I NG Famous Chuño provides Peruvian growers with better income A grower breaks open the ridges with a pickaxe, which reveals a wide range of varieties. that the land is owned by the community. A grower can cultivate and maintain it until he stops growing. Then the village council decides who is allowed to use the land afterwards. Potato consumption under pressure In addition to the people of Trias, a delegation of the Belgian potato organisation Belgapom is also visiting Peru. Led by Director Romain Cools, who is also Chairman of the World Potato Congress (WPC), they will also visit the World Potato Congress in the ancient Inca capital of Cusco this week and want to see with their own eyes what Trias has achieved in the Andes. The Belgian interest group has supported the Coalición Chuño project, which was started in 2016, to take Coopagros a step further in its development. Together with the Rotary Club from the Belgian town of Torhout and the VTI Torhout Senior Secondary Technical School, a freezedrying line has been installed, where the cooperative can process the famous Trias wants to give women and youngsters a good life in the Andes. 18 Potato World 2019 • number 1 Pagina 17
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