Thursday catch up post Sugar Cane production

While in Blanca's village we stopped for about half an hour at one of her cousin's place.  He has lots of land and enterprises but as a sideline he and his cousin will harvest the sugar cane they have.

It is first cut.  The top bits are used as feed for the animals.

Then individual stalks are put through a press, extracting the syrup.  Their horse operates the press but they demonstrated it for us today.  They said tomorrow the horse will work.

Then the syrup is boiled down and sold for further manufacturing.

This was very interesting to see.