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The ecologic sugar is one of the healthy and exportable choices of Piura. Photos Courtesy Comunicaciones Piura . PIURA CITY, Peru - It seems to be a titanic challenge but somebody has to do it: sweetening everything that can be sweetened not increasing one pound of body weight. The stebia is already a solution available in the local market but its price continues a bit expensive above than conventional sugar. The choices are giving up or following in search of another natural option, reasonable price… and that gets the task of keeping healthy especially in a region where the levels of diabetes or heart-related diseases are high in Peruvian context. Maybe that option is the granulated pan , the evaporated and crystalized sugarcane juice for obtaining pure sucrose . There is no more process to do, not chemical at least. The home of the granulated pan in Peru seems to be Piura Region and specifically midlands of Ayabaca and Huancabamba Provinces.  For the lifetime, it ...

By Julio Vásquez Calle   MONTERO, Peru – The former Sícchez [Seekches] District ’s Mayor Octavio Chuquihuanga Cunya, also former president of the Señor Cautivo Commonwealth, said in 2008 that the rural agriculture of Piura Department highlands is different to the agriculture in lowlands. Those differences are that offer a development chance, joined to the organizations, into an only development vision.   “Being this agricultural corridor [Montero, Jililí, and Sícchez], today it wants to be agriexporter when it is already exporting ecologic coffee to the fair trade markets, international markets, today we are going to make it with the ecologic sugar,” affirmed Mr Chuquihuanga, who also confirmed it was building the first hi-tech industrial processing plant of ecologic sugar in Sícchez District.   By his side, the former Montero District ’s Mayor Ramón Febre Palacios, also former vice-president of the commonwealth, shared the successful experience by exportin...

Everybody was chasing Vargas Llosa but he seemed to chase another remarkable Piura-native man.   By Roberto Saavedra (special to FACTORTIERRA).   CHULUCANAS, Peru – Imagine that somebody knocks on your door in a shiny morning, you open it and… what a surprise! Mister Fernando Barranzuela? It’s not another guy. It’s about Mario Vargas Llosa , the reknown Peruvian writer, 2010 Nobel Award of Literature. Although the poet Fernando Barranzuela used to had visits of many people, this one marked a before and an after.   The missing land Piura is not a strange land for the novelist, playright, essayist, journalist, and even actor. He spent his childhood and teenage there. He studied at San Miguel School, wrote and produced his first theater play, knew that his father –whom he belief to be died—lived, learned to make love.   Vargas Llosa arrived on Monday, March 5 th , 2012, and had two homages, one at the campus of Piura National University and another else at Merino Squ...

A Peruvian official audit bureau says the procedure is environmentally damaging but it doesn't set any investigation, harder penalties neither.  LA HUACA, Peru --

The contamination tarnishes the Pearl of Chira.   By Mako Fernández Guerrero , Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo , & Ronald Zevallos Muro . Photographs by Franco Alburqueque .   SULLANA, Peru – The rumor –because no one confirmed the source—ran like spread powder: the second most dangerous city of Peru after Callao. The inexistent tourism vanished, the Sullana-natives  abroad were seen bad, coming to this city from other places equaled to enter a war zone.   Until 2013, the second most important city of Piura, one of the 20 most important ones in Peru (after the 15 th place), concentrated about 150,000 people of 1.7 million who lived across Piura Department , according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (2007). It’s the capital city of Sullana Province and it hosted the half of its population, according to the same source.   Where have the ddiscouraging merit come out from? It was repeated, it was repeated, and even it provocated an emerge...