Alejandro Bonifacio Flores
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Cuenta la biografía del Dr. Alejandro Bonifacio Flores, quien salió de una familia productora de quinua y llamas en la pequeña comunidad de Orinoca, en el Altiplano, para ser un destacado investigador de la agroecología, y profesor de agronomía en Bolivia.
Innovaciones para Optimizar el Trabajo Agrícola
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Agricultores en al Altiplano de Bolivia han desarrollado nuevos insumos botánicos para proteger sus cultivos. Ahora, necesitan mejorar sus equipos de fumigación,. Muestran varias innovaciones para fumigar más fácilmente.
Removing thorns from cactus fruit. quitando las espinas de tunas
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Using a broom of leaves to remove hair-like thorns from prickly pear fruit. Usando una escoba de hojas de sunch'u para quitas la espinas finas (qhepus) de la tuna, en Bolivia. Video filmed by Ana Gonzales
Pressing cassava
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In West Africa, cassava is grated, fermented and then pressed to squeeze out the moisture, before the mash is toasted to make gari. Here a man presses 4 sacks of gari mash using a hydraulic car jack.The cassava mash is held inside plastic gunny bags.
Molding gari to eat it
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The best part of farming is eating. In West Africa, cassava is made into a dry, flour-like food called gari, or garri. To eat gari, it is often kneaded with hot water to make eba, a dough which you can roll into little balls and dip in soup or sauce. Delicious!
You can eat some cassava varieties raw
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Many cassava varieties are bitter, or toxic and must be processed before they can be eaten. A few varieties are free of cyanide and can be eaten boiled, or even raw! Don't try this on your own unless you are sure that the cassava you are eating raw is sweet and nontoxic.