Some traditional rural products

We stopped by the roadside to see a couple products, palm sugar and peanut oil. Both important in the local economy. The 1st is of sap being harvested from the toddy palm, roughly akin to tapping sugar maples, except this is all year, and the sap is collected from branches rather than the trunk. In the 2nd picture, the sap is being boiled down to make palm sugar that is made into balls that are then sold or mixed with coconut or ginger or tamarind, etc. to make quiet nice confections. The 3rd pic is booze making. The vats in the back are for fermentation, while the pots in the front are for distillation. In the 4th picture, everything is made from the palm trees: chairs, wooden posts, roofing, baskets, seat covers, etc. In the last picture, peanut oil is being pressed by the traditional method using an ox to drive the rotating pressRead more