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tomatoes they could be done as red to gold the soil is ideal and they've been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. the reason is that tomatoes have become gambling chips in global trade policy as have other products africa is a lucrative market shipments of canned tomatoes milk powder and frozen chicken from industrialized nations promise huge profits. global trade policies are destroying domestic markets and forcing people to leave their countries edward for one no longer harvests tomatoes in ghana but in italy appalling conditions.

gonna build up its tomato industry after gaining independence in 1957 the country was keen to develop its economy and utilize its own natural resources today all of ghana's tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in poilu goole there are many reasons an unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and a global trade policy italy china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on ghana to look for. that's where i can i'm

pretty sure i'm not tired i wrote of fresh water i'm counting on you what i can better answer for before you and for everybody i have to do this i really have to sort of this is going to fight israel or completed for. last year i did 2 months. it gets. the full golden moment if you see do would be to look to see was wrapped lined on the market and this like there was no week. so i was just crying vincent artane got now grows onions instead of tomatoes he also used to work at the factory he and other former workers still come here they can't bear the thought of giving it up. this factory once provided a livelihood to an entire region a new this is

a good of the factory and mood. of the factory because this factory is working a lot of people are getting to through it passed. if you do start. and everything is working. there's no in the field this machine so you can hear all the time he was headed that you have something. this is there sitting with you and not working is something that is so frustrating. if this factory is workable it is it is going to be the light of the north. trade policies are a global competition and the more powerful players stand a better chance at accessing the most lucrative markets it's the people on the ground who lose out.

benediction a free fuck is a tomato farmer into a bottle in the middle of one of garner's main tomato production regions but many day laborers looking to be hired during the harvest season attest to widespread unemployment even at the busiest time of year some while to find work. nearly half of gone as popular. lives from agriculture a robust tomato growing industry would boost growth in rural areas nowhere is this industry more likely to flourish than here in the countries for the tile middle belt where you move but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown

produce farmers are becoming increasingly worried that. benedict grows tomatoes on a hectare of land if you believe that. god will. and last that and that's why unions will be also who we have to buy water every day when it doesn't rain or. a tank of water cost $120.00 c.d.'s 20 euros. and that's not even enough for the whole far to be asked about will we have to buy water every day for about a month and a half until the rain comes if we have a lot of problems which makes it hard to survive in this country and them and all my. crops grow in abundance here before most could cultivate even more land and employ more workers yeah but they lack funds if they want to buy seed and fertilizer and pay for irrigation water they need to take out loans. it's got to be

we don't have money for fertilizer everything's expensive we can't sell our harvest and we end up and. i have a life or in children to care for. that's why i'll have to head to the desert and try my luck elsewhere is it. worth. it. please we're going to. have almost more about women who make it to europe have better lives than we do life is hard for us every day you see people struggling and still. we have nothing whatever to do but know how b. and the museum i already. if the chance comes today or tomorrow i'll head to the desert my farm is failing and the bank wants its money back i guess about it in the sky.

the money. now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt i have to sell that produce to the market queens to sell it on in the cities. close there's a surplus of produce during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell at rock bottom prices. this year amazon mantra $320.00 c.d.c. ok offered $270.00 and said others are getting even less at this price i wander in anything after that is. not about me i'm like ok. if i can. run my. tomatoes out of food staple in ghana they account for 40 percent of spending on vegetables middle class canadians

like their tomatoes can. ghana could meet at least a portion of it's demand itself but the canned tomatoes here on the market are not domestic ones. come out of china come out there even if some of this has been some of them distinct i'll be very happy if we have a company here in town that we could use our own tomatoes condé and if the local people point to imports it and rank and experience spending a lot of my day when big money to that kind of skills the country to become.

benedictus husband has gone to italy hoping to earn money to help support the family to pay for the children's school fees and also so they can invest in a house and a well to irrigate their crops. and to pay it but it's up and down the one day my husband can earn more there than in gonna. see. us and he sends money every month. for me and our 2 children name one approach she reminds me of my powers and. here in the village it's obvious which families have relatives in europe they're the ones whose homes are made of concrete it's a. 00000000 despite the problems besetting the industry many have continued to grow tomatoes.

benedict his house is still under construction for now she still paying rent. and i'd be more serious here not because i do you do if some prefer canned tomatoes because they're more convenient you just add water and they're ready that's it that's me but i prefer fresh ones as well and more importantly he would seem to want to see. for instance the i'm about done well i have 4 friends who farm tomatoes. and they're all ready to set out to the desert rats and close quote. into an all outside one month my husband is in europe and is making money and i'm working here . that's how we manage marriage and children how to school. almost we also use his

money to pay rent and part of it to complete our house. as if you were here and it would be very hard for us i'm always glad to see to believe and try their luck elsewhere. hello. it is very. ileana morphy now of the. so yeah well. yes. he's in italy he worked on an apple farm later on a tomato plantation and now he heard animals.

from. most canadian migrants live in other west african countries many also live in the u.s. and canada. and in europe. for gun and farmers there's no deagle route to europe most pass through the sahara desert and then cross the mediterranean according to the international organization for migration or i.o.m. 16000 canadians took this path to italy in the last 5 years. many african migrants end up in southern italy but tomatoes grown here are processed and sold in cairns including at low prices in ghana with production heavily subsidized italian tomatoes have a competitive advantage over local goods in africa. the

seasonal workers from africa actually contribute to the problem by working for rock bottom wages which further lowers production costs few of them have resident. punnets but day laborers are exploited by my field and i sanctions recruited by agents known as puppet on e p's middlemen pay them to create off today to talk to the commission company in the beginning to get a feel for to the agency still believes you know this before you go from using the half on up where you go with the company coca-cola you know country music. from one it's moving too quickly at 280. i did. who often go criticism overweight that helm and you said you know it's. going to go on and yeah

i took it to a new clothing as well who offered kind of the guy just a big bag with the engine. still it was in the cellar monday and it's kind of local no problem for the no from all the telly all. from ottawa's. you tell him what is it tell him to work on the machine. i didn't want to as forgotten and yeah i still don't want to lose. the i'm not working i evaluate i'm gonna pick it 11 which are right and leave the bed in. my foot i said farmer i'm rice also a farmer there used to grow up the mantle of the company called last. man mcniff i will call it an e.s.l. and i live in a ghetto you. and your team full of both or you see i was good then you do if south

. korea had worked on the other seasonal workers living shanty towns dilapidated heartsore tents in the middle of fields. there's no water no sanitary facilities electricity or heating. that on no way i'm living denominate that you didn't know where i'm living. and i live out there then because if i didn't there then go a little worried. that would. lead to how you are here you have to fight to take over your family. or you even sometimes causes all of them doubt problem to call you and you can see that you can help them flew off for years fighting like will know our life is like no real life to head off. in chairing the owner of the p.f. ready scotto co-operative grows organic tomatoes it also highest seasonal workers

from africa but they earn a decent wage and are given proper contracts that not a day laborers at the mercy of the exploitative couple are allowed to system. deon shank is from senegal and has worked on many. dante sions. but he might even you know. it was only when i began here that i realized what goes on at the other plantations. i used to think it was just the way things worked in italy and now i'm here i understand what's going on or lie about that we're being exploited and you're. right any comment yet throw what i got so is head of the co-operative he wants to raise awareness of the plight of the seasonal workers. who are going to chase you know what i need to tell consumers so that you could buy a can of tomato puree for $0.40 alex up do it yourself be an antonino were

exploited so much that they were forced to live in terrible conditions with no basic rights no running water no electricity. so do you still want to buy those tomatoes. presence of tomato products are sold for next to nothing even though picking processing packaging and transport all have to be accounted for profit is all that matters that's why a kilo of tomatoes often fetches as little as 5 cents. said most of us that i as a farmer am getting paid just $0.05 per kilo now how am i going to make a living it's impossible i need to buy the seedlings irrigate i need the fertilizer i need to rent a tractor. are there any either. these are no costs the only flexible costs are the wages i pay my workers we mustn't forget to give the couple a lot of systems is a consequence it's a consequence of a market that has spiraled completely out of control of all of it so.

pietro wants to beat the system because tomatoes are sold through a fair trade organization for 30 instead of $0.05 per kilo. bucking the global system isn't easy it involves restructuring the entire farm to consumer chain. or is that a little when you are no billionaire pietro aims to prove that process to monitor products can be made ethically he wants his co-operative to serve as an example a small step to changing the entire production system. because the video is lots of people say we need to help the situation improve our garden so that these people don't come here in the 1st place we got him a blow by economics and politics make that impossible the economy is no tomato

processing industry are gonna get which goes to show how sick the system is how utterly crazy but the system i'm allowed to complete them in the fall. in europe industrial farming subsidies and wage dumping are resulting in surpluses cut price european tomatoes end up exported to international markets today it's really is just a minor player in the global tomato industry china is now the world's biggest producer its exports tomato paste often diluted with cheap filet gradients all over the world $60000000.00 tons per year 10 times more than italy the most to. porton metric in global exports is profitability any negative impact on the countries that import the goods is irrelevant because free trade is the principle that opens the african market to exports after independence african countries introduced customs

duties in order to protect domestic farmers and emerging industries but now these restrictions are being lifted despite the fact that most african nations still struggle to compete on the international market gonna came under international pressure want to try to increase import tariffs on tomato products to 40 percent of that now at 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to arrive in the country. like. economist corban all 2 is familiar with the problem and as an academic he can speak more freely than the gun and government which has to take into account international investors yeah fresh was my child my view. that no one not all said yeah wow. so

this one child. i want to present a math to. about 70 percent is fact. the problem with this product. is. they're more or less the child under the master. the market for dramatic. push him out. there must apply themselves. so you have a large number of trauma too far this week or last so there's tomato paste and rice are not the only products jeff. dicing african markets and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in 28000 for example they give you also exported milk powder concentrate and meat to west africa.

at this market in accra it's easy to see how imports are driving out domestic products translates into job losses electrons literally destruction of libel. it translates into public doubt. and it translates into castration values young people want to get out of this country. you do not have a capacity to. change is this because you have lost control over our clothes your awhile back about said book and bottle sick on food from the us and us get done out of africa and work on a fortune which is. true of us all the shows the response from you if you try to change policy to get by you.

prepositional not destroy a life. that's missing the sun sometimes it up front off on top of all those who profit but if you. loose us amen. to pontiac as an agricultural advisor in northern gonna be the tomato factory and quite low go that's gone out of business. as a result local farmers are desperate many of them leave the region others are experimenting with alternative crops. i'm still do grow tomatoes but just for their own families. still want to know about one other but you know just to have that and much to tell now you have to bundle nearly a bit about them on obama you're probably not the one for them by the minute

runtime. but all the pleasure i see was all done by 2 months of my new public factor was incessant they used to make a lot of money. even. though they did it told me that they were making plenty money because doing defecting needed it and then the market was needed it's. point one more left. you know. how long will now know what i'm going to talk to you now for so much so we have to continue to put in much effort as we come. to. this other end of the 2 month or 3 did very well mel it came to america new market so ever 10 what person

a field know how they know people are not coming to buy and it led to some say. they come to take their lives because you don't think their lives thereby will come after them they don't have the will to put. that. many people have left to try their luck elsewhere most of them go to the cities. leaving. sally for went fast to kumasi then to accra now he's planning to make the journey to europe. or to america my you have neither of my children go to school in america i'm not happy about that too to the i know they should go to school in them but i can't afford the fees. sometimes we don't even have money to eat at night. it's just.

a lot telling me as we've seen the images of dead migrants in the mediterranean sea . and he says my wife is praying for my safe boy it's the little boy coming you know she knows i'm going to give our children a better future you know i'm going to him on board i'm going to choose from nothing to. lose and nothing will be another cause i would pray to god how long a voyage when i love him what the oh god wants us to pray for and to trust in him whatever happens are told about for today i want to. move. this house is being built by my brother who lives in our hostel and this one's by

my brother and this is my dad was my when i was. i would like to tear it down and build a concrete one and also one for my mother and i can tell them i. was pretty tough like a lot of dogs when they killed in the food like this one not getting good gum gum gum got. you know. what. people like sally full can't just apply for a visa board a plane and fly to europe their only option is to save as much money as they can and try to make their own way that. anyone who can afford it and lists the help of someone known in the village as a travel agent. who is getting some advice before he leaves.

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2 yes what a walk never in a ball and telling you know i. did it. i am damn can i stop am i eat or pm connection you. never look. at the time who know me. when you know i got to see. i deceive me laugh we went from you know when i lived there when there. were no mistaking you now find. out ahead. you know my. song for me dylan love to form below wind but i got a piece in there you go out on for me. to

hail a bunny we have no choice but to our situation here forces us to take this risk the minute you can even if i die my children can be proud of me to go out and because i want have died stealing or robbing a someone but because i wanted to give them a better future but it simply wasn't god's will for someone from the ones or. it's hard to tell if someone's on their way to the markets or on their way to europe some who decide to make the journey don't tell their families until they've already left. many young men in the

region are tired of waiting for life to improve they get to a point where leaving feels like their only option. thanks. to. the man who hope to work on one of italy's tomato plantations have only one way to reach europe across the sahara desert in the mediterranean it's a journey that will cost some of them their lives.

the keratitis relief organization has built a chapel near the tomato fields in a poorly there are showers here and the workers can also seek advice and free medical treatment edward survived the journey from africa but he had an accident in the van on the way to the tomato fields under normal circumstances this would be covered by workers compensation and edward would be paid sick leave but on a pulley as tomato plantations ed wood is only paid for the crates he fills so he needs to get back on his feet as quickly as possible i mean if they don't work they don't earn anything that. we should be providing them with support and. i mean we need to be given food something to eat. and when they go back to work they're back at square one.

they have no nothing and no one who can help them. migrants contribute a substantial share of financial aid to ghana that would send remittances home every month even though he earns so little he works as hard as he can and it's still never enough he lives not only with a way to his family's expectations but also with the hostility of many locals. many italians are useless. to me. they're afraid of us because. we're black almost warrior class linking the ones who aren't. just in it well case and we are not that endo commenced to walk foot in his bed of

blacks only don't know what the are doing. my job now but i'll close with you for the money for some fucking pay school fees. i think i see anything listed and. yeah ok something we post the responsibility to fulfill the former. government. now without money to fund the enough and oh so fast and the like if you have to supply then i'm good but i feel whatever.

although. i. would have to. live. now mike is a. very clever one over one more so. that we are all very very low. number. i just have to go back. and do something for myself. it's nice now. i'm going. i'm fine thank you very well you mention. him.

fast time i have to walk you fully you know kong. younkers there sentimental and then. i mean you're camping i want to know how much they are hiking on and on when you want to. come come come in training. and. it's heavy and they're coming back for more and a snake yeah it is now with the 7th eights now being with me 31 with your new crown will be a must do you wake me up with a blank wall with you not the guy you get it's all miss you yeah. the 1st move is not many are you somewhat lucky. because. there you got it embankment just because i'm on my doing this bump that i just

remember home because my mother used to do this in. there's nobody to go back to will go go back to africa like this will go left africa possibilities to undergo africa i just like to know that there's a wild time example but. how many years i spend in this country and i'll go back to my country feel. to me i look at me one day one day one week these guys who are from my previous and i watch you might live. near the town of techy mountain one man has made it his mission to revitalize the local tomato industry when he returned home to ghana some years ago with apollo afore he was shocked by what he saw defunct factories desperate farmers and tons of

imported tomatoes after studying and working in the u.s. he wants to invest in his own country. and tomatoes could be a gold mine read to gold but he's also aware of his social responsibility. is going to change. the landscape because was was not brought produce and on a par a very large scale in 510 years we want to see their whole lives good changes and to produce a quality. so matters. many attempts have been made to revive the country and to not our industry a factory was opened here in touchy man in 2007 but it's been closed for years perhaps it's about to get a 2nd chance. but by night it's gonna burst gonna provide running thin they are clean because this is home we are.

was the youth have to guarantee of work then they will go after. that into the military man where they will die. if the government wants to make sure that industry surviving the house to be aware of perfect in the industrious office like reducing the imports from outside into the country but if the government does not provide that comfort zone then the competition would be unbearable for most unfortunate. if the tomato factory was given a fat chance it might help boost the region's fortunes. trade policies could support development in struggling countries rather than indirect.

that benedict his family might be able to and a living from tomato farming husband could remain at home. and if he did decide to work in europe for a while he might be able to travel back safely and live and work in fact conditions . if. it's. really really. early mostly. meaningless but always he. make a good reality every morning we talk and every evening we talk for a few on certain days you see young men with backpacks walking in groups of 10 but you know that they're going to the desert for if i fell in with old folks someone

left a week ago but i haven't heard if he's arrived or not. and yes far as the danger goes we humans can die and we can live in this journey is just like our life and you might win or you might lose that's why they make this journey alone what if. it. was.

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sometimes i am but i stand up in which the camp. i think steve interject a culture of looking at the stereotype the question interesting to see the country that i know not. needed seen prediction as grandma down to me it's all about ok bob i'm rachel join me for me for jam and sunday topic. post here i am going to get. sick claims displaced to hell just thought you'd never know when you. nice news and people. i want their own story. becomes a. must. is what stance january 27th on d w. this

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