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A jimador using a coa de jima. A coa de jima or coa ("hoe for harvesting", "hoe") is a specialized tool for harvesting agaves.. It is a long, machete-like round-ended knife on a long wooden handle used by a jimador to cut the leaves off an agave being harvested and to cut the agave from its roots.
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It is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka and accounts for 2% of GDP, generating roughly $700 million annually to the economy of Sri Lanka. It employs, directly or indirectly over 1 million people, and in 1995 directly employed 215,338 on tea plantations and estates. Sri Lanka is the world's fourth largest producer of tea.
Agave tequilana, commonly called blue Weber agave (agave azul) or tequila agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco state of Mexico, due to its role as the base ingredient of tequila.
A Scoubidou is a corkscrew-like tool that is used for the commercial harvesting of seaweed, whose invention is credited to Yves Colin in 1961. [1] The device consists of an iron hook attached to a hydraulic arm. [2] It superseded a common harvesting tool known as the guillotine shortly after its invention. [3]
Scyphophorus acupunctatus, the sisal weevil or agave weevil, is a species of polyphaga beetle of the family of the Curculionidae. [1] Sisal weevil larvae, known as picudo del agave or "nixtamal worms", are a traditional food in parts of Mexico. [2] Sisal weevil, struggling to get up Sisal weevil Sisal weevil, found in the White Sands Monument ...
The Hohokam planted agave in rockpiles about 5 ft (1.5 m) across and 2 ft (0.61 m) high. The pile of rocks around the base of the agave plant act as a mulch to help preserve moisture and prevent rodent predation. Check dams and contour terraces help channel the runoff from precipitation to the agave plants. About one-tenth of the Hohokam agave ...
Chena is the oldest cultivation method in Sri Lanka, it goes far back as more than 5,000 years.(Before the Anuradhapura Kingdom) [1] [2] it the dry zone, the recovery of a chena plot proceeds through various stages of succession, (active chena, abandoned chena, chena re-growth, scrub with pioneer three species, scrub with secondary tree species, secondary forest, secondary forest with primary ...