Ezike Palm Wine is Available During Pandemics: Drink Responsibly!
Warning: Pandemics are Deadly! Stay Safe!
Oftentimes in the history of mankind, pandemics disrupt human activities and render various businesses dysfunctional. Three evils face man in such precarious time: sickness, death and poverty.During the outbreak of influenzas,novel viruses, etc people are usually restricted from congregating and engaging in other social activities. Curfews are often declared and many businesses are shutdown.
Palm Wine business faces the same challenges as other businesses in the face of war against pandemics but the effect on it is not as egregious as some businesses.
In Enugu state of Nigeria, Ezike people taps quality palm wine. Many men in the geopolitical zone depends solely on their palm wine tapping profession. What do you think would be their fate when lockdown and curfew is declared by the government? Poverty, starvation, death! That is why they flout government orders and continue their tapping.
Where do they sell their products?
Palm wine is embedded with natural ingredients that enhances human health. Many who have discovered the nutritional value troops to beer parlours and restaurants where palm wine is sold. They, too, flout the curfew and social distancing order from the government. Ha choro inu nkwu(They want to drink palm wine).
The retailers also follow suit by buying gallons of palm wine for sale in their discrete and open shops. The business is usually their only means of livelihood too.
In Enugu-Ezike, palm wine is always available. Due to reduction in demand as a consequent of lockdown, the price is lower than what obtains in the normal business atmosphere.
Trucks and vans that convey food stuffs from state to state are usually used as the medium to ship Ezike Palm Wine to different destinations within the country. Due to the fast fermentation of Ezike palm wine, it is regarded as a perishable goods that do not taste the same under normal condition for within two days after harvest. Ezike palm wine is not yet bottled.
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