Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Producción de Panela - TvAgro por Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel The Trapiche is a mill that used to be driven by animals, although that name is still used today in some industries, even though animals are no longer used. A modern sugarcane mill, with a cistern for storing guarapo, syrup, or sugarcane juice. (Similar to the older mills in its mechanics.) The mills in sugar mills are made up of a series of mills (the number of mills varies depending on the factory) composed of three grooved rollers that press the previously shredded sugarcane and extract its juice. This juice is concentrated and cooked until the sugar crystallizes. The residue from the mill is a product called bagasse, which can be used as fuel in the boilers or as raw material for papermaking. Nowadays, the use of mills as mobile stations for processing sugarcane juice has become popular; The process has been adapted to the commerce and needs of informal entrepreneurs and consumers to such an extent that we can easily find sugar mills run by a single person on the streets of some towns, particularly in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia. In India, it is possible to find animal-drawn sugar mills moving and processing sugarcane on the streets. Old Colonial Hand Mill. Commonly used by slave labor. City of Guanare, Portuguesa State, Venezuela. These artisanal adaptations are very manageable, transportable, and can be installed almost anywhere to offer fresh sugarcane juice, demonstrating that production processes are not limited to large industries and can directly benefit the economy of the people. Lever Mill, which essentially served to crush and extract sugarcane juice. Africa. Consumers or customers of sugarcane juice processed in this way delight not only in the flavor but also in appreciating the innate beauty of the mechanical systems of the gears, handcrafted from organic material. For this reason, it is common to find people who attribute hundreds of healing properties to the consumption of sugarcane juice extracted in wooden mills. Sugarcane is a plant native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea. Muslim expansion led to the introduction of the plant to territories where it had not been cultivated until then. It thus reached the European continent, more specifically the coastal area between the cities of Málaga and Motril, this strip being the only area in Europe where it took root. The Spanish later brought the plant, first to the Canary Islands, and then to America. It is said that the first plant to be brought to America was brought by Pedro de Atienza, on Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola. Thus, this crop was developed in countries such as El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Venezuela, which are among the largest sugar producers in the world. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapiche Juan Gonzalo Angel Restrepo www.tvagro.tv