Description

Wilfredo Rojas Toralba, a market porter at the Wholesale Market of Santa Anita in Lima and member of the union of market porters specializing in corn, SEGCHGMML (Sindicato de Estibadores Giro de Choclo-GMML)—a union affiliated to the Federation of Market Porters and Manual Carriers, FETTRAMAP (Federación Nacional de Estibadores Terrestres y Transportistas Manuales)—sorts corn. Market porters specializing in corn are the only porters that also do the selection of produce. Contrary to the other produce that arrives at the wholesale market, corn arrives in bulk and market porters have to sort it by size and quality and then carry it in sacks into the market. To do so requires the tactile skills to quickly determine the qualities of the corn cob without removing the husks so that they can classify corn into first, second and fourth class—a skill that takes them about 3-6 years to learn. . Special Instructions - full release: all subjects signed our form of model release MRLIMA-078