Agroindustrias Amazonicas has positioned itself on the international market based on research, production and sales of high-quality Inca Inchi oil and protein.

Agroindustrias Amazónicas was founded in June 2001 after 21 years of research into the biology, farming techniques and nutritional benefits of sacha inchi. In 1980 the biologist Dr Cesar Valles Panduro began to research the plant Plukenetia Volubilis Linneo, commonly known as sacha inchi and registered under the historic brand name INCA INCHI. At the beginning of 1990 Dr Valles, as head of the National Agricultural Research Institute INIA in San Martin Region, the sacha inchi research hub, collected 51 ecotypes of Plukenetia volubilis Linneo from the Peruvian Amazon and created a sacha inchi germplasm bank.
Businessman José Anaya Yábar, founder of Agroindustrias Amazónicas in 1998 began the Omega Project, to research different plant sources of omega 3 in the Amazon and the Andes mountains. He found sacha inchi, which was not cultivated and had not been known as a source of omega 3 and his research in cooperation with La Molina Agrarian University, the Catholic University of Lima, Vitoria University in Spain and the University of Bonn in Germany, confirmed that Plukenetia volubilis Linneo contained the highest amount of omega 3, 6 and 9 oil of all the world’s edible plants: up to 93% of its content in its natural state, free from toxic components and with a high percentage of antioxidants; it also has high digestibility and bioavailability indices. Furthermore, Plukenetia seeds were found to have the highest protein content: up to 65% high-quality protein after the oil has been extracted, which is the highest of all the plants and animals used as food throughout the world.

With this knowledge of sacha inchi’s high nutritional value, he and Dr Cesar Valles founded Agroindustrias Amazónicas in June 2001 and planted the first sacha inchi crop in Peru and the world destined for industrial production and sale, with conviction and faith that they were developing one of the best resources in the world for improved health and nutrition.

As soon as the first crop was harvested, the world’s first sacha inchi factory was opened in 2004, the product of our research into industria transformation processes and in the same year Agroindustrias Amazonicas won the gold medal in the edible oils category at the WEO 2004 in Paris, beating oils from Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

Agroindustrias Amazónicas is the leader in research, crop development and advanced sacha inchi production techniques; sales of sacha inchi under its Inca Inchi brand differentiate and guarantee the quality of the sacha inchi oil and protein.