Behind the agriculture scenes

It is exactly three years when idea of having a pepper farm in Mozambique arrived into Mike's brain. And yesterday it was D-day when the first real crop of peppers were mashed in his Drotsky machine on his Elephant Pepper farm. After starting the machine, everybody was coughing and sneezing very intensive. Hopefully we didn't hurt anybody's respiratory system. The air was so densed with chilli acid gas that we barly kept our weeping eyes open.  But we successfully prepared peppers for next Tabasco factory shipment. Mike is one of seven suppliers in the world who supply Tabasco (Lousiana, USA) with peppers. He provides employment to almost 100 local people so far. His farm is located in Augusto, Marracuene, Mozambique. 95% of employees are women.

Elephant Pepper farm

Filling the buckets

Sign on the wall

Cat waiting for chilli adventure

Drotsky milling machine

Full buckets

Electrician reading the manual

Electrician connecting wires

Adding salt to chilli and weighing

More weighing

Cats leaving the place

Mike pouring chillis into machine

Masks on

Starting the machine