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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 - Breast, cervix, prostate, skin, stomach, lung. The prevalence of cancer cases seems to grow as the economy grows, or at least that is what public health specialists state, based on the improvement of incomes is not providing a better life quality but promoting a bigger alcohol, tobacco, and synthetic treatments consumption, also sedentary and overweight. The improvement of the lifestyle could prevent many of these conditions but any folk says not to have time for adopting it. That is why the Berenson Swimming Academy and the Peruvian League For Fighting The Cancer have joined to launch a cause that consists in promoting the physical exercise as a healthy lifestyle and using it to fundraise against the cancer. The Let’s Swim Against The Cancer initiative  consists in raising 5 soles or 1.5 dollars per every 100 meters or 109 yards to swim. Berenson Academy clarified it is not about a competition but to call professional, amateur swimmers, as well a...