In Nagpali I visit a small ice factory for fishermen and their fish accompanied by Kyaw.
In late afternoon in Nagpali, it reigns a certain excitement in this small factory, everyone, except for the boss, is in a hurry to finish filling the bags of ice before the pickup truck to deliver its goods Fishermen. The boss receives us in front of the entrance where his office is. No guided tour here, so we leave alone to discover the facilities and the production line. It had been a while since I wanted to see an ice factory!
At the far end there is a sort of huge freezer with a serpentine green pipe on which the water falls.
Then a large room with an electrical installation to run this giant fridge. A little further on, the hundred-liter tanks line the ground under wooden boards, there must be more than a hundred of them.
One worker fills these bins with water while another operates a winch to lift two of these bins in which the ice has formed and thus move them to the machine that will loot the ice.
In front of this small factory, a large machine reduces the blocks of ice into small pieces at a very steady pace. These blocks arrive by sliding pushed by a worker at the foot of the machine while two workers a little lower take turns to fill bags of 30 kg at the exit of the hole out of which is projected this crushed ice.
The van is next door to facilitate loading. Once full it starts to go to the fishing port. It is a “craft” production that runs at full speed and without dead time. The bag sells for about 3,000 kiats ($ 2).
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