I decided to,in an effort to avoid redundance, group all my foods by certain categories because inevitable some items will have similar levels of oil use. Here, as you might have guessed, I will be investigating all things agriculture that have not been processed in relation to my earlier described meals. This means Bananas,papayas,carrots,onions, tomatoes,Chaniz and mangoes.
Here, in Tanzania produce works a bit differently, from what our guide (also a farmer) has told me, fruits and vegetables that I have been consuming are all locally grown either coming from the village we are in or one very close by thereby reducing the amount of oil to get the produce from the farm to my plate because the distance is usually minimal.
My guide has also told me that crops are all hand picked and carried by humans instead of machines. The fact that they rely less heavily on tractors and other fuel powered means that not only are they consuming less oil from using the machines, but they are also saving on oil for things like maintenance on these machines.
One aspect that makes up for the above mentioned oil savings is the use of fertilizers and pesticides.I assume(maybe wrongfully) that farms here use some form of pesticide and fertilizer on their crops and a large quantity of those products are petroleum based or in the case of fertilizers amonia based which is derived from natural gas.