Brown Sugar

Made from the unrefined goodness of sugar cane juice. Its soft texture will make your favourite recipes irresistible.

Since the introduction of Cuisine Camino whole brown sugar (Muscovado) in 2009, La Siembra has been working directly with Cooperativa Norandino (formerly Cepicafe) when then first developed their sugar project.

The sugar project at Co-op Norandino transformed the co-op from a successful democratically-owned farmer export organization to a demontratically-owned farmer organization for social and economic change.  Recognizing their success in raising household incomes from better prices and yields from coffee, village co-op leaders noted that sugar cane, which members grew in the low-altitude parts of their farms,had no market. To address this and the increasing practice of turning cane juice into rum, the farmers decided to move forward with investments in village level panella production and processing facilities. They built 20 cane crushing and drying stations throughout the three departments of Ayabaca, Huancabamba and Morropon.

Today, co-op Norandino is an association comprised of 90 grassroots organizations with more than 4,790 small-scale coffee, sugar and cocoa producers, located on the western slopes of the Andes Mountains in Piura, Peru.  The farmer owners of co-op Norandino benefit from five key areas of program services from the co-op: training, financing/credit, certification, processing and sales & marketing.