The project team (hereinafter the "Peru Project Team"), consisting of researchers from the APEC Climate Center (APCC) and Weatherpia Co., Ltd., successfully concluded a 17-day site visit to Peru from Monday, April 13 to Wednesday, April 29, 2026.

Through this visit, the team announced the full-scale launch of the project titled "Improving national climate information services for enhancing climate resilience of rural communities in Peru" (project period: December 2025 – October 2027) and completed crucial field surveys for establishing a customized local Agroclimatic Management Platform (PGA).

To officially kick off this Peru project, which is being promoted as a pilot project (Track 2) of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Country Program, the team held a project kick-off workshop on Wednesday, April 15, at the Peruvian National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (SENAMHI) in Lima, the capital of Peru.

Hosted by KOICA and the APCC, the event was attended by about 50 key stakeholders from both countries, including the Peruvian Minister of Environment, the Executive President of SENAMHI, the Executive Director of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation, and officials from the agricultural sector. Attendees shared a mutual understanding of the project's importance and finalized plans for close future cooperation.

During the business trip, the Peru Project Team directly toured Lima and major agricultural regions in Peru, including Motupe, Acora, and Acocro, conducting in-depth demand surveys to improve and expand the Agroclimatic Management Platform (PGA) promoted by SENAMHI.

The team carefully inspected optimal sites for installing Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) to collect accurate village-level climate data, and successfully completed surveys and in-depth interviews on current climate information utilization with over 90 local farmers and regional stakeholders.

Based on these field surveys, the Peru Project Team plans to design an intuitive information delivery system tailored to the farmers' level of understanding. In particular, through this trip, the team laid the groundwork for a community-friendly education program that actively utilizes illustrations, colors, and indigenous languages so that farmers can easily understand the information and make their own decisions regarding planting and harvesting times.

Remarkable consultative achievements were also made on the technical front. Through intensive meetings with SENAMHI working-level staff, the Peru Project Team agreed on a detailed roadmap to integrate and automate five previously scattered agricultural climate data systems into a single unified platform.

Furthermore, the team finalized the details of an 'Invitational Training Program,' which will invite key researchers from SENAMHI to the APCC Buildig in Busan, South Korea, to transfer precision climate prediction modeling technologies and the latest statistical techniques tailored to Peru's complex topography.