When we are in the field or in the forest and we look around, we can observe a diversity of plants, animals and living beings with which we coexist, but often we do not take them into account. After a few visits to different villages in the province of Leoncio Prado, near Tingo Maria, we proposed the participants of the project to carry out a first workshop of transformation in order to sensitize them to the Economic Alternatives, to create a product from the fruits present on their plots. Given the large quantity of orange trees on the cocoa farmers’ plots, we agreed to make orange jam!
The objective of the transformation workshop is to give the farmers the experience of creating products with the natural resources they already have on their plots, and to allow them to commercialize the finished product, thus generating an additional income.
As the oranges were already on the plots, work groups were naturally created: one lit a fire and disinfected the containers, another washed and peeled the oranges, while the last one cut the white part of the orange to leave only the pulp, cooked the marmalade and then put it in jars.
Two workshops were organized, the first one in the village of Saipai, on August 20, where we obtained excellent results with the active participation of the farmers who were very interested in the whole process, following the recipe step by step, and the second workshop was held in Arbe on August 26.
When we are in the field or in the forest and we look around, we can observe a diversity of plants, animals and living beings with which we coexist, but often we do not take them into account. After a few visits to different villages in the province of Leoncio Prado, near Tingo Maria, we proposed the participants of the project to carry out a first workshop of transformation in order to sensitize them to the Economic Alternatives, to create a product from the fruits present on their plots. Given the large quantity of orange trees on the cocoa farmers’ plots, we agreed to make orange jam!
The objective of the transformation workshop is to give the farmers the experience of creating products with the natural resources they already have on their plots, and to allow them to commercialize the finished product, thus generating an additional income.
As the oranges were already on the plots, work groups were naturally created: one lit a fire and disinfected the containers, another washed and peeled the oranges, while the last one cut the white part of the orange to leave only the pulp, cooked the marmalade and then put it in jars.
Two workshops were organized, the first one in the village of Saipai, on August 20, where we obtained excellent results with the active participation of the farmers who were very interested in the whole process, following the recipe step by step, and the second workshop was held in Arbe on August 26.
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