By Monika Goforth | Guatemala Program Director
"The members are harvesting,"says cooperative coordinator, Angelica. The 110 women members are busy harvesting their amaranth this month and the machine is hard-at-work!
Set between the farms of the two biggest amaranth producers, the machine has already cleaned more than 2 acres of amaranth seeds in the last two months. Now, the machine is getting moved to the central office for everyone else!
A hundred other small scale amaranth producers are bringing their harvests to the central co-op office where the machine will clean hundreds of pounds of amaranth over just a few days. Conveniently, the clean amaranth will be ready for packaging and distribution straight from the office to Guatemala City and beyond.
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