Brazil Diary - Day 11
21-05-2006 (Sunday)
We started our journey back to the hosts from the place of conference.
We passed through the city called Ourofino which is named after a musician. As I mentioned earlier the city had a church at the centre whose dome looked magnificent from the main road. There was the giant statue of Ourofino at the entrance of the city on the main road and we had some pictures with that backdrop. All en route I could notice that there is greenery everywhere, the roads are well laid and most part is hilly terrain.
There were plenty of cattle and horses and they looked great with the mix of red soil and the green grass. I could spot a few black vultures flying in the sky. Their flight style showed that they had abundant food in the greenery on the earth below them. Every house in the rural area is tiled and dish antenna is part of the paraphernalia. Thick bamboo is used as electric poles.
We stopped at the house of a Rotarian who has 300 hectares of land under coffee plantation. His house is a delight to the eyes. The compound itself is a huge one with iron mesh fencing. At the entrance he has a kennel where giant hunter dogs at least 6 in number were resting. They did not make even a slight sound despite the entry of so many cars including the bus in which we traveled. They are left out in the night to guard the sprawling area. There was also a cute little shed where the bird fowl was kept. There was a mini football ground within the residential area with two goal posts on either side and we had a ball of a time for a few minutes playing with the young boys who were at ease with the ball. No wonder Brazilians play football so well.
We had different types of drinks and I preferred to have beer. There was lots of food and also the barbecue.
We went around the coffee plantation and had a first hand information on how coffee is grown. The yield we were told is 3000 kg/hectare and is sold at $2 per kg. During the peak season this farmer employs 400 persons per day for 3 months and pays them $20/day/person. No doubt, this is a large scale farmer. The coffee seed is initially green then turns red and finally brown when dry which is then put in the machine to make it powdery. The process is quite interesting. The dry seeds plucked from the coffee plant are dropped in a water channel which flows to the point where the machinery is located. Step after step it reaches the machine where the workers collect for making it powdery.
This visit was the most memorable and rejuvenating as it is in stork contrast with the busy life in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo.
We started our journey back to the hosts from the place of conference.
We passed through the city called Ourofino which is named after a musician. As I mentioned earlier the city had a church at the centre whose dome looked magnificent from the main road. There was the giant statue of Ourofino at the entrance of the city on the main road and we had some pictures with that backdrop. All en route I could notice that there is greenery everywhere, the roads are well laid and most part is hilly terrain.
There were plenty of cattle and horses and they looked great with the mix of red soil and the green grass. I could spot a few black vultures flying in the sky. Their flight style showed that they had abundant food in the greenery on the earth below them. Every house in the rural area is tiled and dish antenna is part of the paraphernalia. Thick bamboo is used as electric poles.
We stopped at the house of a Rotarian who has 300 hectares of land under coffee plantation. His house is a delight to the eyes. The compound itself is a huge one with iron mesh fencing. At the entrance he has a kennel where giant hunter dogs at least 6 in number were resting. They did not make even a slight sound despite the entry of so many cars including the bus in which we traveled. They are left out in the night to guard the sprawling area. There was also a cute little shed where the bird fowl was kept. There was a mini football ground within the residential area with two goal posts on either side and we had a ball of a time for a few minutes playing with the young boys who were at ease with the ball. No wonder Brazilians play football so well.
We had different types of drinks and I preferred to have beer. There was lots of food and also the barbecue.
We went around the coffee plantation and had a first hand information on how coffee is grown. The yield we were told is 3000 kg/hectare and is sold at $2 per kg. During the peak season this farmer employs 400 persons per day for 3 months and pays them $20/day/person. No doubt, this is a large scale farmer. The coffee seed is initially green then turns red and finally brown when dry which is then put in the machine to make it powdery. The process is quite interesting. The dry seeds plucked from the coffee plant are dropped in a water channel which flows to the point where the machinery is located. Step after step it reaches the machine where the workers collect for making it powdery.
This visit was the most memorable and rejuvenating as it is in stork contrast with the busy life in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo.
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