Peru Harvest 2025: Key Updates on Timing, Quality and Global Demand

As the 2025 coffee harvest gets underway in Peru, we’d like to share essential insights to help you plan your purchasing strategy. This season brings a highly concentrated harvest window, evolving logistics, and growing global demand, all of which impact contract timing, pricing, and supply.

Celebrating 6 Years of Impact at Café Selva Norte

This season also marks the 6th anniversary of Café Selva Norte (CSN), a foundational initiative of Urapi and Ecotierra. Together with cooperatives across Peru, CSN has become a central platform for advancing sustainable coffee production, financing farm renewal, implementing agroforestry systems, and generating certified carbon credits. At the heart of this alliance, ElevaFinca represents the green coffee sourced from these regenerative efforts, ensuring value creation for both producers and buyers.

Through the combined work of Urapi, a private equity fund focused on sustainable land use; Ecotierra, a leader in agroforestry project development; and ElevaFinca, we are proud to support a model that benefits people, climate, and supply chains alike.

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Timing and Concentration

The bulk of Peru’s harvest will take place between June and August, compressing what is typically a longer cycle into just a few months. While harvesting will continue into October, volumes outside the peak window will be more limited. This creates:

• Greater pressure on early contract reservations

• Potential price volatility outside of peak harvest months

• Storage and logistics strain from high-volume arrivals

• Quality risks due to weather shocks during a short harvest period

Early booking is advised to secure volume and minimize risk.

Logistics and Export Flow

High volumes during peak months can lead to:

• Congestion at ports

• Delays at processing plants

• Speculation in local pricing

To mitigate this, we recommend spreading out shipment schedules where possible and planning storage and customs clearance in advance.

Regional Activity Snapshot

As of March 2025:

• San Martín leads in production (over 7,000 tons)

• Junín follows with over 4,000 tons

• Cajamarca, Amazonas, Cusco and others are ramping up

These regional patterns will continue to evolve. We will keep you updated.

Market Trends and Buyer Behavior

There are currently no major port or road disruptions, but forward planning remains essential.

Peru’s position in Asian markets continues to strengthen, with significant export growth in:

• China (43 percent)

• South Korea (rising specialty demand)

• Japan, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands and Portugal (double-digit growth)

  
  

Contract sizes and delivery expectations are evolving with this demand shift, especially for specialty lots.

Weather and Quality Insights

Recent rains are accelerating fruit growth and ripening, particularly in regions such as:

• Chirinos and Chontalí (Cajamarca)

• El Palto (Amazonas)

• Naranjillo, Soritor and Pacayzapa (San Martín)

  
  

However, intense rainfall may cause premature cherry drop and increase the risk of coffee leaf rust and Ojo de Pollo. Our field teams are monitoring conditions closely.

Specialty varieties like Geisha and Bourbon are benefiting from this year’s climate, with earlier harvests and higher volumes expected.

Infrastructure and Quality Control

Producers and cooperatives continue to invest in:

• Advanced fermentation systems

• Improved drying techniques

• Traceability technology for higher transparency

  
  

These improvements are already contributing to stronger quality and consistency.

Our latest coffee offer is constantly updated here