Two plants of Piura Highlands are used to make filter drinks
Photographs provided by AgroRedNorte. Students of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes School, at Segunda y Cajas Farmer Community (El Carmen de la Frontera District) and Innova Páramos Association, basedon Totoras Village (Pacaipampa District) presented two filter drinks made of lanché ( Myrcianthes myrsinoides )and ushpa ( Vaccinium foribundum ),looking to blast the market of functional & nutraceutical drinks. The products are the result of a participative investigation proposing to conserve ecosystems paramos and cloud forests at the Andes of Piura Department by using medicinal and fruit native species to make filter beverages. It has been promoted by Muqui Networ k and advised scientifically by AgroRedNorte . They’ve been made by the own locals, this is used as a strategy to conserve the Andean highland ecosystems that are part of their territory. The investigation is already as longer as than over a decade, it’s promoted by agroRed...