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Behind The Scenes at a Baobab Buying Day in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2021
- You've heard the buzz about Baobab, the African Superfruit, and maybe you're lucky enough to have tasted it. But one thing you've probably never done is experienced the vibe at a Baobab fruit buying day. Until now. This special behind-the-scenes episode, presented by Gus Le Breton (the African Plant Hunter) takes you right into the heart of the action. Starting from the moment the organically-certified fruit are brought in to the buying centres, we get to see how the fruit are recorded for traceability, sorted, weighed and then taken for the manual extraction of the highly-prized fruit pulp from the unusual, woody outer shells of the fruit. A unique insight into one of Africa's most nature-positive and economically-impactful export value chains.
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Thanx for creating employment in Zimbabwe.keep on doing this
Thank you. Doing my best!
Love yr content keep sharing 💕
Plus subscriber here
Proudly 🇿🇼
Thank you! Will do!
Happy ppl. Makes the job easier too. Great video. Thanx
Yes it does indeed!
Thank you for all your videos. We really enjoy them, and learn a lot too.
Thank you. Glad you're enjoying!
Good to see people making a plan! Well done!!
Thank you!
Fascinating amongst fruit /trees thar grow areas its a good investment
Thank you!
I love this video with all my heart
Thank you!
Inspirimg entrepreneurship .....I love the video.
Incredibly investment for the locals
It's long hard work. We need more people buying baobab to really make this a success. So please encourage your friends to buy it!
Just hope that the communities are planting new trees as well for future generations since we are.taking away all the fruit which should be also naturally growing new trees.
Definitely. Check this out: th-cam.com/video/4v_10IzhgtQ/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful
Thank you!
Very good. Gus,do you know about africa shiny bush that grows between the rock that suppost to give you energy? It also comes from there zimbabwe. Thanks.
Thanks. I don't know that plant off the top of my head, but maybe somebody else here does? And if you can give me a local name I will definitely track it down!
Interesting......any chance u could also showcase some final products from this fruit.
Great idea, thanks. I'll do that!
I've been buying baobab from Amazon, but if their is a way to buy from you I definitely will support your company
Yes! Please let us know!
Our powder is marketed by several brands. But if you're in the US, I recommend Sabina Zunguze at agift2africa.com. If you're in Europe try Organicburst.com in the UK or berlinorganics.de in Germany. Thanks for the support!
Lol Amazon is the last place I excepted to find baobab.
Hi which exact part of Zimbabwe and milling company I’m interested in creating a product made of baobab
Which tools or machine do they use to crack those big nuts soo fast??
It’s pretty amazing
They're just experienced operators!
I wish to know the place we hv a lot in our area, good project soon we wil start farming these exotic trees
Thanks for sharing and good luck!
Whats the name of the area,i hear N.Eastern Zimbabwe but not sure where that is.
The baobab belt in north-eastern Zimbabwe runs from Hurungwe in the west right down to the northern part of Nyanga.
hi where can i buy baobab oil in zim preferably bulawayo
cool.
Thank you!
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Thank you!
How sustainable is this?
Great question. The answer is very. The biggest threat to baobab trees is that they are seen as less valuable than arable land and are cleared to make way for arable agriculture. This way the trees are given value and people have a strong incentive to look after and conserve them. So actually this is probably the best way of protecting baobabs!
Anogadzirisa which product which we may buy in the supermarkets
If you're in Zim, we supply Four Seasons with baobab and you can buy from them.
Very delicious fruit jam and and some alcohol as well
This type of thing scares me so much. Say one thousand seeds in Nature generate one actual survivor tree. How many potential new trees in their natural habitat are being lost with this, that could be replacing trees that have died? Just a question to consider.
Have you seen a boabab tree?
@@malvinchadzamira7197 Yes I have.
@@malvinchadzamira7197 Why did you have to ask sich a question? Information is all over bro. Theres a 1/1000 chances of survival from the seeds bro.. madii nhy
@@dicksonmack8949 was not being rude at all. You have to see these trees and nature in which they grow to understand that his point is widely off the mark. Besides most of the trees in the wild have always provided food and mean to live not just to the indeginous people but also the wild life around it. The reason why the trees expanded the area of cover is through such activities the seeds are hard to crack and as such when the fruits get eaten the animals or even people will move the seeds greater distances.
Just to add these trees survive elephant s as well so his concern is not valid.
The end of baobab for 🇿🇼 locals all for export markets
Its all about "money money money" 🤑😢. Wonder how much they are getting but we know who is harvesting the money.
Thanks for this interesting and valid comment. I have a different take on it, but I’d love to discuss it further. Your assumption is that, before baobab fruit were developed as a commercially valuable export product, all the fruit produced by these baobab trees were being consumed locally. If that was indeed the case, of course the development of an export market would be a bad thing, as it would be depriving locals of their fruit. But in fact most researchers have found the exact opposite to have been the case. Although they were a historically important part of the diet to rural Zimbabweans, in the last few decades, the progressive trend towards a more “Western” fast-food diet has seen Zimbabweans abandoning their traditional foods in favour of fried chicken and chips. These traditional foods, baobab included, are now stigmatised as “drought” foods, only suitable for consumption by children herding cattle or in times of drought. Consequently, most of the fruit fall to the ground uneaten. This is a tragedy. My mission is to reignite enthusiasm amongst Zimbabweans for their “heritage foods” based on traditional plants. Ironically, creating export markets for these products also awakens local consumers to the health and other benefits of these traditional foods. The perfect outcome to me would be a situation where no fruit falls on the ground and rots. The local communities who own those resources can than make an informed decision as to whether or not they choose to consume the fruit themselves, or sell them for a profit and use the money.
@@AfricanPlantHunter fried chicken and chips is a justification narrative.... 😂 😂 😂 There is no fried chicken in chips in rural areas and 🇿🇼 have always had chicken time immerorial. Perhaps now it's problems with transportation etc etc. What I worry about is the greed of export markets. Very greedy and exploitative
@@chiyenyumba7135 don’t see no exploitation, in-fact kudo’s to this guy for providing an income source to locals in these difficult times,