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By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo MARCAVELICA, Peru – Samán Sector’s organic banana growers seem to face two troubles: the lack of mobile coverage, that leads them to depend on an only operator for making business, and the uncertainty in field parameters those allow them to correct aspects like the irrigation, the fertilization, and even the harvest time. In both cases, their competitiveness is very vulnerable. However, a bunch of seven just graduated engineers from Sullana and Piura could have a technological solution that, at least, solves the field parameters uncertainty issue, specifically the irrigation, by installing sensors connected under web architecture throughout the acres, promising greater productiveness and quality, and optimizing costs. The entrepreneurship is called HidroDatos (HydroData in English), that is also the name given to the system, consisting to measure key indicators as the humidity, the relative (water steam pressure at a specific tempera...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – Malingas Town’s Mayor Jesús María García Varillas will pull a Project that resets her community in the local and international context, she informed this Thursday May 23 rd after having a meeting with the FACTORTIERRA.NET’s producer Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo at that village for gathering ideas those benefit the southeastern portion of Tambogrande District, where it is located. The mayor’s idea is to estimulate the creation, launching, and placement of different products and services based upon Malingas resources by using the media in general as diffusion platforms to the big audience, starting from the strengthening of skills at a communitarian level. In that context, local leaders promoted a meeting between García and Peñaherrera to coordinate activities based on the experience that the producer developed in 2009-2011 at the zone, with the FACTORTIERRA.NET crew , by assignment of the Malingas Zone Development’s Committee, so he got a environmental...

PIURA CITY, Peru – It seems to grow at a regional level but it could not be well-ranked at a national level. That could be in brief the actual condition of textile industry in Piura, an activity that could represent 28% of the grossdomestic product (GDP) of the region, but which occupies the fourth place nationwide under Lima, La Libertad, and Lambayeque, as the Industrial Confectioners Association of Piura (Adecip, as in Spanish)’s president Martín Purizaca has recognized so. One of the causes, according to the official, is the textile is better organized in those territories, so the association looks for empowering skills through a seminar that has been scheduled for May 22 nd and a fair for 24 th and 25 th , when they are going to learn new confection techniques until applying automation in the process. Adecip was created on September 14 th , 2012. Currently, it has 60 members and 200 formal production workshops. Until today, it has participated in different nati...

SULLANA, Peru - The initiatives to face the climate change in Piura Region from the government and the citizenship got your interest during January, February, and March of 2019 from our contents offer, as well as the spaces we manage for protecting the environment, and how that conscience allow us to improve life conditions of the people and even launching green businesses. In fact, the two main stories you preferred, according to the survey we did on our Twitter account, were " Anti-Disaster re-Engineering ", that tells how the authorities of Piura Region are planning to manage Piura Basin in order to avoid damages due to the excess or the lack of water, and " Riding For Love To The Planet ", that explains why the Chulucanas, Peru-based bodybuilder Ronald Benites is using a bicycle for tripping around the regional territory and educating the people on the need to conserve the environment". Other stories you liked were " Green, Amber, And Brown ...