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Dozens of workshops in Ambanja produce zebu cartscharrettes. One such workshop in the town centre is run by Mr Theodore, <!-- 032 49 341 77)--> who with his team of six skilled carpenters builds and assembles around 50 carts charrettes per year, all manually crafted without the use of electrical power tools.
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The design and model are always the same: A simple two-wheeler which easily attaches to one or more zebus. A cart charrette takes about one week to make build and costs 1,800,000 (USD 400).
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The humble charrette remains as practical and relevant as they were hundreds of years ago in providing transport to among farmers in distributing transporting their seasonal harvests crops to marketplaces.
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The countless farmers who maintain the tradition all deserve an award for their collective contribution to keeping their carbon footprints close to zero.
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