Efraín M. Castro-Alayo, Associate Professor of the Academic Department of Agronomy, Agroindustry and Forestry of the Faculty of Engineering and Agrarian Sciences (FICA)-Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas from Peru. Agroindustrial Engineer from the National University of Trujillo, Peru. Master's in Industrial Engineering with a mention in Operations Management from the same university. Doctor in Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has been Dean of the FICA, Director of the Academic Program of Agroindustrial Engineering, and Director of the Agroindustrial Pilot Plant of the same university. Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship FICAemprende of the FICA. Consultant in agrarian public investment projects for the Regional Government of Amazonas, and he is a Mypes consultant for the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion and Swisscontact. He is the principal investigator and co-investigator in research projects funded by Fondecyt - Concytec, the National Program for Agricultural Innovation (PNIA), and the National Program for Innovation in Fisheries and Aquaculture (PNIPA). He has conducted research internships in GC-MS and HPLC applied to products such as cocoa and chocolate at the Center for Food and Development Research, Mexico, and the National School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.