{"id":118006,"date":"2021-01-03T18:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/burundi-farmer-finds-new-technique-for-preserving-tomatoes"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:23:55","slug":"burundi-farmer-finds-new-technique-for-preserving-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/burundi-farmer-finds-new-technique-for-preserving-tomatoes","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Farmer finds new technique for preserving tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/burundi-farmer-finds-new-technique-for-preserving-tomatoes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe uses ash from a chimney, and sifts it three or four times to remove large residues, debris, and other foreign materials. Then, he dumps the ash into a paper carton and places the tomatoes in the carton. With this technique, Mr. Nduwimana manages to safely store his tomatoes for many months. He explains: \u201cI keep my tomatoes in the ash for a period of five to six months, so I can sell them in December, January, or February when the price has risen\u2014since tomatoes are rare and become expensive during this period.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Vital Nduwimana hated how many tomatoes he lost every season. For years, his tomatoes started rotting just three or four days after harvest. He felt frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nduwimana explains: \u201cI was not able to sell all my tomatoes; I lost almost half of my production. Worse still, I would sell at a low price in the market. So in 2015, I thought that maybe I should find a tomato conservation technique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nduwimana grows tomatoes in eastern Burundi, on Kabuyenge hill, five kilometres from the Tanzanian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe uses ash from a chimney, and sifts it three or four times to remove large residues, debris, and other foreign materials. Then, he dumps the ash into a paper carton and places the tomatoes in the carton. With this technique, Mr. Nduwimana manages to safely store his tomatoes for many months. He explains: \u201cI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}