Slogans For Cleaning Up

ATAPRI-postcards from the province of El Oro, Machala (Ecuador)


1.-2 .- 3. Plantation La Esperanza, loc. Corralitos-El Oro (socio Atapri CO 57), owner of Mrs. Julia Guerrero (pictured his father)



4 .- 5. Sons of producers and Franco De Panfilis in loc. St. Joachim-El Oro



6 .- 7. Mercedes Plantation, loc. Sitio Nuevo (socio Atapri SN 27), owner Mr. Gerardo Bustamante

Broken Capillaries On My Toddler's Face

Launch of new cartoons for 2009

The 2009 starts with four new cartoons designed to meet the needs of the Italian market not only for aesthetics but also the content.

ATAPRI DELUXE BOX 18 kg net guaranteed (in fact, contains almost 19 kg of fruit) shows the original colors of the logo FAIR TRADE kraft background color to natural dyes, is a selection of the best organic bananas FAIR TRADE members who give weekly. In this cartoon just go bananas medium-large sized, with skin perfectly "clean" and aimed to please the most demanding of our local supermarket chains.

We then prepared the new board ATAPRI JUNIOR 13 kg net that is guaranteed exclusively designed for specialty stores looking for a bio product of high quality and durability. Were chosen, therefore, bananas harvested slightly earlier with healthy crowns particularly cut up (and therefore less exposed to rotting phenomena). The box weighs 5 kg less than standard to allow more shops to receive weekly deliveries of merchandise and have it always fresh.

These two boxes are the pride of the 60 small producers association that finally, after more than 10 years of taxation marks and conditions by the multinationals, are now able to see represented their brand and identity on their board.

We studied also a cartoon created specifically for a major customer-supplier of school canteens that is unprecedented for a country like Ecuador is characterized mainly of large pieces of banana. The new BIOS 'COLEGIO born at the time of inflorescence, flowering is natural and there is the usual thinning. In this way, the size of these organic bananas FAIR TRADE is reduced spontaneously by 30-40% so they can provide 120-140 banana boxes with an average weight of 150 g per fruit. This work can only be achieved by ensuring the individual producers as a long-term management of this production does not allow manufacturers to give the banana to the current market that accepts only fruit size more than 8 inches.

Only un'organizzazzione well articulated as you can afford to our rifiornire the Italian market with this fruit throughout the school career, serving during the rest of the year (summer and Christmas) the Northern European market through strategic alliances with well-established 10 years of work.

And finally, our classic cartoon brand OSI has had a facelift, will contain only organic bananas to meet the expectations of our customers looking for a fair average value for money and reliability ORGANICSUR company like that for 12 years continuously, it is proposed to the Italian market!

Fishing Pole For Backpacking

Atapri-Biodiversity and CO2 emissions responsible for

In keeping with his motto "protect biodiversity, the source of life", the association of small producers ATAPRI always directed their efforts to reforestation of the region in the province of El Oro in southern Ecuador, which grow Musa sapientum native to the Philippines.

Normally banana plantations rely 1500-1700 plants per hectare and genetic material from new varieties obtained by meristems reinforced, cloned and resistance to certain diseases, drought and stagnation.

ATAPRI, instead, as a rule the use of up to 1000 plants per hectare, the use of only genetic material from indigenous plants that self-propagate naturally and are considered more resistant phenotype and a growing following the principles of conduct organic farming. This philosophy of production allows producers to owners of the plantations ATAPRI to overhaul every 20 or 30 years instead of every 7 years as the most productive plantations generated by meristems, but the biological management together with the autochthonous characteristics necessarily reduce the yield to about 10-15 cartons per week per hectare (in the conventional with the use fertilizers and synthetic pesticides can be reached peaks of 55-60 cases / week per hectare).

The low density of bananas per hectare allows the cultivation of cocoa bushes of the variety "criolla" and other important species of native plants that since the last census, effettutato among all members in November 2008, are as follows :
- 450,000 banana plants (none of which comes from meristems) - 350,000 shrubs cocoa - 1,500 hectares of virgin tropical forest indigenous - 800 hectares of native species replanted according to the plan of reforestation (20,000 cedar trees, tropical 10,000 of figueroa, 5,000 guachapeli, Samon and 10,000 shrubs, 10,000 of fruit such as tropical mango, papaya, mini-banana "Orito, etc...) For the year 2009 is already scheduled the planting of 20,000 new trees and 5,000 plants pachacos bamboo 'fistula'.
The clear "waiver" intensive agriculture leads members to benefit from a favorable and unique ecosystem whose harmony is reflected in a product more healthy and less vulnerable to attacks of pathogens of banana (mainly black Sigatoka).

The abundance of foliage at different heights (ie, cocoa bushes in the shelter of banana leaves and much higher than wood species and large fruit trees including mango and papaya), also allows save and capture 0.95 g of CO2 equivalent per banana produced by members ATAPRI. According to a calculation program and study on CO2 began in October 2008 to evaluate emission and capture of CO2 from agricultural production of bananas of the members of the association, and the CO2 emissions from shipping and land dall'imbalaggio from maturation and other operations necessary to bring the banana to the final consumer is equal to 0.7 g per banana. Therefore the balance between CO2 emitted CO2 captured and calculated for banana is a positive for the production of bananas association ATAPRI!
We are proud to support this project which seem to Fair Trade organic bananas and contribute to the association ATAPRI fight against the greenhouse effect responsible for climate change by reducing CO2 emissions and global warming!

Milena Velba - Floor Cleaning

New Headquarters for Civil Protection in Mottola

The success of the exercise that was held in April has been remarkable. The summer season is spent lavishing continued efforts aimed at the protection of the intervening territory where there were fires, as St. Basil and in an area in the immediate vicinity of a military depot in Mottola, Massafra and Martina Franca. Then the autumn rains have seen them engaged in making of new practices streets covered with debris. And now the Organization of Voluntary Civil Protection ERA "European Radioamateurs Association, Section of Taranto Province Based in Mottola, reaching the coveted goal of the opening of new headquarters in Via Vanvitelli 2, Sunday morning at 10.30. The invitation reads: "In a modern world where the man is completely swallowed up by technology and becomes a runaway slave of videophones, there is still a type of person who undergoes the charm of another era of radio and wireless connections . Among telegraph keys and microphones, these "sons of Marconi practice their hobby with the tranquility and calmness that is proper. Citizen of the world already by far the '30s, amateur radio has often been able to give her valuable contribution in the event of disasters Natural and Civil Protection. "
Mottolese the volunteer organization, to further renew its operations in the area, likely to bring even more young people to this fascinating hobby, and an important resource for civil protection.

Love The Smell Of Nylon

Two bananas and a bit 'of water

Mad about the Japanese diet

Here comes the new banana-based diet. This diet is also very popular because it is easy to follow and generates little stress

mainly in the United States and Japan, for the healing powers of the fruit, took off on a diet to which people would put my hand on fire. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," read one of these popular and not at all from the USA were the first fresh fruit juice in the bottle produced from the "baby" Odwalla - later absorbed by the Coca-Cola - and Naked, a company favored by Google and its campuses around the world extensively distributed (and free) to employees and visitors.
is not surprising, then, that a diet of fruit such as Morning Banana Diet is proving a considerable success with the public.
arrived from Japan a few weeks before Obama's victory, supported by agency launches which see this as due to heavy shortage of bananas which is registered in that country, the Banana Diet has been greeted with wild enthusiasm by the young especially, in the climate of renewal that we breathe in the country by the election of new president, do not hesitate to replace the diets Zantrex made famous by Britney Spears.
The Weekly Times has dedicated a series of stories sensazionalistche. The broadcaster CBS, looking to ride the trend, broadcast a special complete with a public demonstration in a square with a dietitian in New York. The Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper did it analyzed by a nutritionist and as a tabloid The New York Daily Post and the New have slammed the front page with six columns on the new securities "madness coming from Japan." The seriosissimo and ultra-liberal Huffington Post internet newspaper he's concerned.
What distinguishes the Morning Banana Diet from other diets in circulation is not only the fact that it is one of the diets easier to follow that have been formulated in recent decades, a couple of bananas and a glass of warm water every morning before breakfast and you're done, but also its history.
Invented by a pharmacist in Osaka, Sumiko Watanabe, who had tired of her husband's laziness, diet to lose weight over the objective also aims to improve the energy level of the caregiver.
rebounded in early March on social networks (Mr. Watanabe had lost over 15 pounds), has sparked such a furor that in a few days, the bananas have disappeared from supermarket shelves of the major Japanese cities and months later the situation shows no signs of slightest change, and some are beginning to talk about rationing of the fruit.
Meanwhile in the library have come many instant book on the subject and it is estimated that they have already sold over 750 000 copies. One of the most popular diet is the very low level of stress that characterizes it. Indeed one of its principal regulations is precisely to avoid stress at all costs. In that regard, those who make it must undertake to have dinner before 8 pm and go to bed before midnight.
"One of the reasons why people get fat is that it works at night or waking up late and to contain the anxiety that creates the lack of sleep ends up eating all the time," said Kery Glasman the dietician " If one goes to bed early to eat less. " Research conducted by institutions
but Japanese seem to support the hypothesis that there are also reasons specific to the physical-chemical basis of the weight loss recorded by those who have followed the Banana Diet: The banana starch, called resistant, it would seem easier and encourage the breakdown of fats.
While online and on television have marched countless testimonials, even the most famous Japanese singer is in support of the new diet. The banana is a fruit rich in fiber and very sweet, which "fills" and then after you eat is physiological and less.
Several websites mention this diet, the most famous of these, morningbanana. com , suggests that, after the two bananas and a glass of water, a pragmatic person can eat just about anything in abundance, except for sweets.

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