Sunday market days, the hungry season, and the first-harvest rites that decide when corn may be eaten.
Why this channel
What you will learn here
Markets are where a visitor meets the country, and the agricultural calendar explains what they will see all year.
Four short filmed conversations with the people who know this subject first-hand are being produced for this page by Stays of Timor. Each is two to three minutes — honest, local, and recorded in Timor-Leste.
The interviews
Four conversations, four angles
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 1Market day
How a Timorese market works — who sells, who buys, what it costs.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 2The farming year
Wet and dry season, planting, the hungry season, and how climate is shifting it.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 3Sacred corn and the first harvest
Why nobody eats the new corn until the rite is done.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 4Seeds, storage and what farmers need
Seed saving, new varieties, post-harvest loss and the road to market.
Photos: Ministry of Tourism & Environment, Timor-Leste
Part of the Timor Information Channels — 28 subjects, told by the people who know them. Produced by Stays of Timor.
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