Cocoa Drying System Using Ancestral Sliding

Abstract:

The research problem focuses on the loss of traditional knowledge about the use of so-called slides (artisanal cocoa dryers) in rural peasant sectors, which have been replaced by gas and electric energy dryers. Part of this traditional knowledge promoted cocoa activity within the producing farms, improving the commercialization of the final product, which has currently decreased since the cocoa bean is mostly marketed in drool, so they receive a lower sale price than the benefited cocoa (Maydasari, 2016; Zambrano et al., 2019). The objective of this research is focused on the design of a cocoa drying system using the ancestral slide. So, if the cocoa dryer is designed using the ancestral sliding, it will be possible to recover traditional knowledge, including improving the process of benefiting the grain in small producers. According to Miguel Estrada, WJ and Romero Castellano, XG (2011) cited by (Macías, 2018), in their publication comment that: A beautiful legend tells that Quetzalcoatl, the god of the moon and winds, discovered the tree of cocoa in the bright fields of the children of the sun. He gave it to the men who called him" The Food of Gods"... According to the chronicles was Hernán Cortez, one of the first to taste his taste. Quetzalcoatl before leaving for Tapallan prophesied that he would return" where the sun rises." In the year indicated in the Aztec calendar as" Ce-acalt"(1519 of the Christian era), just when the first Spaniards landed on the coasts of Mexico. This coincidence meant for the Aztecs the announced return of their banished God. And the reception of the Spaniards as divine beings. Moctezuma offered visitors the most sacred drink …

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2020

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