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Since 2023, a national frenzy has been created to take photos with the sunflowers in Turén, but there was not the slightest interest in investigating what those sunflowers were doing there, who planted them, what they were for and why we had never had them before in Venezuela. As I am a journalist by trade, full-time and I am committed to telling stories that transform people, excite them, contribute to them, so I went to Turén, in the state of Portuguesa, to find out everything about sunflowers and that is what I tell you.
The first thing is that sunflowers are not scenery. They are planted to produce sunflower oil, because Venezuela is absolutely deficient in oilseeds. When they are cut, they will die within an hour because they are sunflowers to extract oil and not to put in a vase, which is another species. When they trip over them, the petals fall off, that laboratory will stop working and the seed that has the oil will not form. And if the harvest is not profitable, the producer will not continue planting them because that investment is not recovered with your photos posted on social networks. I also learned that many sunflowers were planted in the 70s.
- Almost 70,000 hectares throughout the country - then in the 80s and 90s a little less, in 2004 again, but on all occasions there were problems with prices, controls and no one followed. In 2023, a company proposed contract farming and its motto was “The sunflower is here to stay.” They should also know that, indeed, the best lands for sunflowers are the plains of the Portuguesa state and specifically Turén. Furthermore, there lives a community of descendants of Europeans who arrived in Venezuela in the 1950s, brought by a plan from the National Agrarian Institute, in order to improve agriculture in these lands where they only lived off the conuco. This is how the Agricultural Colony of Turén was formed, whose farmers produce 100% of the sunflowers, 90% of the sesame seeds, 80% of the beans and much of the food consumed in Venezuela.The history of these families, the crops, how the sunflower is planted, when it is good to harvest it... I explain all that and more in this chapter on my KZbin channel.
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