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Two studs believe the tara can improve the life quality of a whole school, a town… or even a macro-region.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs by Mako Fernandez and Ronald Zevallos. TUMÁN, Lambayequé – What do you do if you have a school about 660 feet away a factory expulsing smoke almost all the day, and the soil is mostly sandy, also being in a depression prone to floods? The answer may be waiting for anything, or worst, until once upon a day, an institution decides to move a whole town to break a world record… and it gets it.   Tumán is the capital city of the also-named district created in 1998 by the today convicted former Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori, inside Chiclayo Province , Lambayequé Department . The territory Surface is 50.2 sq mi, where about 27,000 people live. Tumán Town concentrates more than 23,000 inhabitants.   The most district’s territory is covered by sugarcane, about 27,182 acres entirely managed by empresa Agroind...

A new perspective for an old Mexican symbol.   HUANCABAMBA, Peru – Laumaché Village, located to the northwest of this Andean capital city, was going to begin the commerce of agave syrup, locally called miel de méjico . This cousin of the aloe vera, but bigger, is better worldwide known to be the origin of the most representative liquor of Mexico – tequila.   Although Laumaché wouldn’t complement the offer of Huancabamba Valley’S alcoholic beverages, led by the liquor of ground cherry and followed by elder’s and the cañazo , tried to open a way in the honey market. The competence here is another bag’s flour – sugar, instead—because the most is developed at the lowlands due to the large dry forest acres, where the bees are in charge of providing the golden and colloid sweet fluid.   For many years, the example of medium industry with communitarian participation has been Santa María de Locuto , Piura River left bank, in front of Tambograndé City . Santa María got displayi...

The so-called king of the desert doesn't expand all its majesty yet.  It is considered as the emblematic tree of Piura  Department's Coast -it normally doesn't grow over than 1650 feet altitude- and it is supposed the Spaniards found it here dominating the landscape when they arrived here in 1532.  The conquerors fastly related it to the European carob tree ( Ceratonia siliqua ), then assigned that name to the species that locals called tahko , according to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s research , although some archeologists asked by FACTORTIERRA doubt about that theory. the carob word, actually, has Arabic roots - alarrooba , coming from Persian alarroob what means donkey's jaw, curiously the animal that consumes it a lot and never stops to chew it here in Piura.  However, the word describes the European species, apparently not related genetically to South American one, the Prosopis pallida actually. FAO states Italian scientist  ...