Venezuela on the Move: Agro-ecological farm "Doña María and Don Guillermo"
The teleSUR team travelled to central western Venezuela to visit an agro-ecological farm in the state of Cojedes and show the importance that its workers attach to the protection of nature. teleSUR
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00:00 [Music]
00:16 Welcome back to From the South.
00:18 Now it is time for Venezuela on the Move.
00:21 And we go today, central west of the country.
00:24 We will visit an agroecological farm in the state of Cojedes.
00:29 Our correspondent Adriana Sibori shows us in the following report
00:34 how the agroecological farm Doña María and Don Guillermo
00:41 works and the importance that its workers gave to protecting nature.
00:46 Let's see.
00:47 Ángel is the owner of this agroecological farm.
00:52 A ritual at the entrance.
00:55 The people who come from outside put their hands inside because this is curative.
00:59 It cures arthritis. It is bachaco soil.
01:03 It is an insect that lives in the tropics and gives out a fungus
01:06 that has 108 macro and macro elements,
01:09 and the body has precisely those 108 elements.
01:13 In the distance, one of his neighbors is fishing in silence.
01:17 Not even with the passing rain does he plunge.
01:20 Here they call fish or any type of meat "salado".
01:25 It is expensive to get outside because if we get enough for a kilogram of pasta,
01:30 we do not get enough to buy the "salado".
01:33 So sometimes I ask permission to come and take 10 or 5 small fish.
01:39 And that's how you push forward.
01:41 That's how I push forward. He helps me and I help him.
01:45 As you walk around the area, he's observed.
01:49 And a good lunch arrives.
01:51 That's not a coporo. That's tilapia.
01:55 How is it going to be a tilapia?
01:58 No, it's a coporo. Can't you see?
02:01 He's one of the 14 siblings standing in the land.
02:05 Nature speaks, cries, moans. It is true.
02:08 What happens is that we don't understand it.
02:10 If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear how the earth warms sound,
02:14 how the flowers grow, how the trees grow,
02:17 you can hear how the earth warms sound, how the flowers grow.
02:21 But man does not know that. The planetary system is in crisis.
02:24 Right now you can feel the climate change because unfortunately,
02:28 man has neglected to protect the environment.
02:30 And what we do here is to protect the environment in an educational way.
02:34 He runs this place by himself. His daughters used to help him.
02:38 Now they live abroad.
02:41 That was a nightmare. Imagine what it was for me.
02:44 A sacrifice, a hard blow in the chest.
02:47 But they will soon come back. Here we have everything.
02:50 You throw any grain on the ground and it grows.
02:53 So there is no need to leave the country.
02:56 His brother-in-law lends a hand when he gives environmental courses to students
03:02 or opens for ecotourism. Now there is little movement.
03:06 It's difficult. Sometimes it's the gasoline.
03:13 Sometimes it's the transportation.
03:16 While the fire continues to burn on one side in a corner and has shows decomposed,
03:23 he prepares himself.
03:25 It is totally biodegradable. It does not cause side effects to health, to nature.
03:30 What happens with chemical fertilizers?
03:32 They salinize the soil uncompacted.
03:35 The bees, their passion.
03:40 Each one in its hive and they have no stinger.
03:44 They are the great pollinators of 270,000 tree species that exist in the tropics
03:50 and they pollinate that amount of trees. That is why they have such importance.
03:54 Looking for a biologist to start a butterfly farm is his next step.
04:00 Luis Horacio Gutierrez and Adriana Sibori, Telesur, Cogedes, Venezuela.
04:04 Venezuela.
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