From 7 in the morning until 10 in the evening. Is this job hard? I assume you work 8 hours a day? Some are for drying and others for grinding.“ Each of them must pass through our hands, be separated and sorted. An average of about 200 peppers fit in one. „ It can be lowered daily 30 to 35 wreaths. How many wreaths can be strung per day and how many peppers can fit in one wreath? The young people stay on the estates and that village grows and lives from the production of spicy peppers.įor stringing peppers, from morning to night, women are in charge of all generations. Nobody moved from Lokošnica for 20 or 30 years. This is how it is done in agriculture throughout Serbia, so we also fit in.“ How that? Do you work all the time and earn nothing? Everyone in this area grows potatoes or this paprika and I don’t believe that will ever change.“

We don’t have greenhouses, or the possibility for early production, or anything like that. However, we cannot produce anything else. When you draw the line, is this job worth it? So, 10 kilograms of raw peppers gives 1 kilogram of spices.“ However, when processed, it is 10 times less. „ In the raw state, it will be really a lot. How much can this pepper produce, if you count per hectare? It is completely different from peppers for ajvar, pickles and many other types.

Of course, but in addition to vitamin C, it also has a lot of taste and no thick rind, like the peppers we are used to. The smaller wreaths hold about 120 peppers, and the larger ones about 200. It has a lot of vitamin C, as you probably already know.“ģ0 to 35 wreaths can be strung daily. They are no less quality, but they are crooked, so they can’t be filled nicely.“ From it we make laces with ten pieces of paprika each. „ First of all, after harvest we separate the first class. In the last few decades, it has also been used as a dry paprika for stuffing, ie for preparing various dishes and traditional specialties.“ „ It is mainly used as a spicy pepper, for which our region is widely known. Although she is not angry, it is a generally accepted name and everyone calls her that.“ She has several names, but we all call her angry or lowly. It is our autochthonous variety from which seeds are left every year and to which our climate is especially suitable. „ It is our variety that has existed for more than 200 years. These peppers on your estate are not some common variety? Is this your production? „ The price is always bad and small for us, but it is an eternal struggle between producers and buyers.“ How about the price? Pepper buyers say that it is too expensive and that they are considering whether to make ajvar. Nikola Stankovic, from the village Lokošnica, says: “ Paprika is good this year, everyone who has grown it is satisfied. Our team visited this village, but not only to find out what kind and quality of their peppers, but also to enjoy the pictures of really unusually decorated houses and yards in it. In the village of Lokošnica, not far from Leskovac, peppers are produced in every household.

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