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 Productive innovation  The small-scale agriculture is facing a decline due to the lost of market space by local products. Therefore, it is important for local campesinos to find alternative ways to produce, so they would increase their level of income and improve their life quality.Chiloe's forests provide various materials that give the campesinos the opportunity to innovate and develop new products or give a new dimension to the ones already existing. BMCh detected Chiloe's traditional activities that are being lost because of the low-demand of the market, in order to improve them with an added value. Tintura: The dyeing of natural colours has always been a practice in Chiloé. Since the majority of the women campesinas already know the process of whole dyeing with vegetal matter like fruits, roots and flowers, the innovation consists in gathering all of the information about the process in order to standardise it in a manual, which will strengthen the knowledge of artesanos and the develop market possibilities. Compost: Wide areas of Chiloé's lands are covered by an undesired plant (Ulex Europeus), that reduces considerably the productivity of the fields. This low-production encourage the campesinos to expand their agricultural land areas by entering the forest. Now, large amounts of this plant is submitted to a simple mechanical process for composting. The product then can be used as a natural fertelizer to increase the fields' production. Challenges BMCh would like to strengthen and replicate these experiences, and develop a commercialisation process for the products developed under these innovative techniques. |
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