Pepper Flakes Turning a Hot Profit for Farmers

Pepper Flakes Turning a Hot Profit for Farmers

Techniques borrowed from Ethiopia, let chili pepper farmers to save hours of labor process . This increases the return from the world's most expensive spice - a quarter of the world's population use .

High-value crops

By Stanford University students more than 400,000 Ethiopian women Eater machine manual handling jalapeno peppers fresh peppers into the higher value of the dry film , seeds, and powder .

Tiring work leaving their hands stained with chili oil, their eyes , nose, throat burning pepper dust.

Small pepper mill includes a pair of rollers made ​​of interlocking disks . A roll by a hand crank , and draw a larger disk of small teeth between the two rollers chili . Preliminary studies indicate that in Ethiopia investment SH2, 175 (25 U.S. dollars) to buy pepper eating , you can handle four times more pepper , the annual increase in revenue SH15, 399 ($ ​​177).

This will be achieved within a year investment return of seven times . Pilot users also get an additional 300 hours a year , other income-generating activities chili peppers fresh cut processing time to 75%.

Pioneer is now crossing the border town of Moyale Ethiopia traders to sell $ 40 in the area of technology and the uptake has been impressive .

Although Kenya is no Ethiopian pepper cultivation € ™ t enjoy the same scale of the African Bridgenet, Moyale and other regions are actively engaged in the cultivation of pepper and transactions.

Agricultural population

Pepper farmers only about 200,000 million dollars compared moiale in Ethiopia.

Heilu village from Moyale County , 30 -year-old Gelila travel three hours by bus to the nearest market to sell pepper over 20 vendors handle the whole red pepper together . Every day they spend tearing the whole pepper cut into small pieces and flakes , hand isolated seeds.

They have become used to the eyes of tears , but a long time has been sapped . , For example , Gelila woke up at 5:00 am ready for school , and her two sons , before dropping them to the bus station to pick up the morning of 07 .

" Ita € ™ SA three hours ' drive away , so I must be here at 7 am , so I can in the market at 10 o'clock , and then take a full day's work chili , â €?, Gelila said ." ŒIf I missed the bus, or even 30 minutes, I have always been destroyed, I will not let enough profit.â?

Women sold to a local hotel , the surrounding area of the market to attract customers and traders processed peppers.

Now, however, have bought 20 fresh chili pepper traders , they lend to those who do not € ™ t manage to buy, like Gelila middle .

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