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tomatoes they could be done as read to gold the soil is ideal and they can cultivate it 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 pulling conditions.

ghana built 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 poilu group there are many reasons unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and global trade policy china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on gonna look for us because that's where our ground. i'm

a security i'm not tired i go to 1st water i'm country you know what i feel better and it's good for me and for everybody after the distributor after sort of. their life they're pretty. last year i did 2 months. it gets. the full good amount if you see do we do. line don't know much and this like there was no week. so i was just crying vincent atween 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 these factories work in a lot of people i get into through our past produce is good and sound. and everything is sweet. there's no in if this machine moving in here all the time that he was headed that you have something that grew up it is there to do it you cannot work it is something up to 400. if this were a 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.

benedict a free fuck is a tomato farmer into a bottle in the middle of one of ghana'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 work to find was. 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 and here in the country's fractal middle belt why would you move but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown produce

farmers are becoming increasingly worried that. benedict grows tomatoes on a heck tariff land because we believe that. capital. and asked that and that's why in your baby also will we have to buy water every day when it doesn't rain or. the gentle water cost $120.00 c.d.'s 20 euros and that's not even enough for the whole farnaby asil bottle 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 i am into meant that all my. crops grow in abundance here before i 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 because it's

got to be we don't have money for bird lies or everything's expensive we can't sell our harvest and we end up and. i have a life in children to care for us. that's why i'll have to head to the desert and try my luck elsewhere is it. worth. it. if we're going to. move almost could do more to make it to europe have better life than we do life is hard for us every day you see people struggling and still. we have nothing whatever to do but now i haue be the museum guy already on my radio if the chance comes today or tomorrow i'll head to the desert my farm is failing and the bank wants its money bags of garbage in the sky.

and. i'm glad. now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt to have to sell that produce to the market queens to sell it on in the cities. there's a surplus of projects during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell at rock bottom prices. if the amazon might ask for 320 they offered 270 and said others are getting even last at this price i wonder and anything after that it could. never be out like a. fire fight and. want. tomatoes out of food staple in ghana they account for 40 percent of spending on vegetables middle class canadians like their tomatoes cammed gonna couldn't eat at

least a portion of it's demand itself but the canned tomatoes here on the market are not domestic ones. they're not. you freak out a company here you. could use tomatoes canidae and instead of people going to q was it slow and frank and serious spent a lot of money when big money to get kind of help the country to become.

benedictions husband has gone to italy hoping to on 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 that crops. need to use it but it took them down here my husband can earn more there than i'm gonna let them see. he sends money every month. for me and our 2 children in one place. she reminds me of my palace. 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 little. different so despite the problems besetting the industry many have continued to grow tomatoes.

benedictus house is still under construction for now she still paying rent. and i've been mostly use here not because i need a there were some preferred can tomatoes because they're more convenient you just add water and they're ready that's it's but i prefer fresh ones. and more importance in the shooting towards. well. i have 4 friends who farm tomatoes. and they're all ready to set out to the desert rats. and so on all sides my husband is in europe and is making money and i'm working here. that's how we manage marriage and children go to school. almost we also use has 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. and i know there's very. ileana morphy now if you. so you know what. yes. thank. you taylor he's in italy he worked on an apple farm later on a tomato plantation and now he heard animals only.

the. most canadian migrants live in other west african countries many also live in the u.s. and canada. and in europe. 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 gunday and took this path to italy in the last 5 years. many african migrants end up in southern italy or tomatoes grown here are processed and sold in cans 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 5 of those production costs few of them have residue. spotnitz the day laborers are exploited by my field and i sanctions recruited by agents known as couple dadi piece middle man paid them puck right off today to talk to the commission only in doing this proof for 2 generations you still believe this shit is real for you to. use it to have fun up with little more to come from coca-cola you know no country news or. from one it's even new google it plenty it'll. be a good. who offical criticism overweight then how would you say you are so. you can ignore any yeah look at her hell not to underclothing as yes you know full well

and to offer kind of the just a big bag with the engine. still never seen sell them on doing these kind of what we know from 40 c. no from all the telly all. from. italian do work on the machine. i didn't want to use for a gun now and yeah i still don't want to use. the i'm not working like evaluate i'm gonna pick it 11 which are right and leave the head of. my father i say farm on my my rice also a farmer there used to grow up the mantle of the company collapsed. and make me travel if you listen and live in a ghetto. everything flew bator you see i was good then it do if south.

had were down the other seasonal workers lived in shanty towns dilapidated huts or tents in the middle of fields. there's no water no sanitary facilities electricity or heating. that on no where i'm living there no i didn't know where i'm living. now never then because if i didn't pay then though a little worried. to how you are here you have to fight to take off your family. or you even sometimes causes all of them to help them do call you and you can see that you can help them flew off yet fighting like trouble now our life is like no really still alive to have off. in chairing the owner of a p.f. ready scotto co-operative grows organic tomatoes it also hire

a seasonal workers from africa but they earn a decent wage and are given proper contracts that not day laborers at the mercy of the exploitative couple are allowed to system. shy kids from senegal and has worked on many. ations. on long 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. that we're being exploited he said. so is head of the co-operative he wants to raise awareness of the plight of the seasonal workers. the mother of the chair see what i need to tell consumers when i'm dutch 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 but i see one of us out the 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 $0.05. said west of course it's i as a farmer am getting paid just $0.05 per kilo now am i going to make a living it's impossible i need to buy the seedlings irrigate i need fertilizer i need to rent a tractor will feyerick is there any of. these are not costs the only flexible costs are the wages i pay my workers we mustn't forget to give the copper a lot of systems is a consequence of that it's a consequence of a market that has spiraled completely out of control the fortune for 30 instead of

$0.05 per kilo. bucking the global system isn't easy it involves restructuring the entire farm to consumer chain. it's not doing when you when you're being a pietro aims to prove that process tomato products can be made ethically he wants his co-operative to serve as an example a small step to changing the entire production system. with a video that has lots of people saying we need to help the situation improve that garden so that these people don't come here in the 1st place we've got to make global economics and politics make that impossible you. there is no tomato processing industry in ghana which goes to show how sick the system it out utterly crazy 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 fill in gradients all over the wild $60000000.00 tons per year 10 times more than italy. the most important metric in global exports is profitability and a 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 garner came under international pressure when it tried 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. economist corben hour 2 is familiar with the problem and as an academic he can speak more freely than the guy named government which has to take into account international investors. yeah fresh why you my child not you. got enough love up all said yeah wow. so this one child was. all in me touching her

son to matthew. about 70 percent spots. the problem with this product. is that. they're more or less functional bonded them must've. been mocked at football matches. push him out. domesticus. story or how a large number of the matter fathers who put most of the. tomato paste on rice are not the only products jeopardizing african markets and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in 21000 for example you also exported milk powder concentrate and me to west africa. at this market in accra it's easy to see how imports are driving out domestic products translates into job losses only translates you destruction of my view.

it translates into publics now. and it translates into fast tristian values young people want to get out of this country. you do not have a cost changelessness because you have lost once while bob was there a while back about 3 bombed and postal sick on food from the us and us kick them out of africa and work on a fortune which is. what i call vicious. was there response from you if you try to change policy if i. reach issue not destroy lives if. it does make me stop some time for the plan to

fund all those in a profit but if you. don't loose us amen. jim o.t.r. pontiac is an agricultural advisor in northern gonna be the tomato factory and quite good 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 and some still do grow tomatoes but just for their own families. before long oh well oh another but do you know. that in much of the now you have to abandon a little. bit of bottom on obama you're probably not one of them none of my mother. but all

their lives were lost all done by too much of my under public factor was incessant they used to make a lot of money. it in the. door they did it told me that they were making plenty money because they would in fact in needed it and in the market was really the. point of the more left in a lot. more longer amount of it because you have to survive through we have to continue to put in much effort as we come. to. the surface and little want to through did very well mel it killed remark at newmarket everton what put it in the field know how there's no where people are not coming to buy and it led to some site. they can have to take their lives because you don't think their lives nearby will come after them they don't have it in one or 2 people. who need.

to. hear. that. many people have left to try their luck elsewhere most of them go to the city's. main. salif or went 1st to kumasi then to accra now he's planning to make the journey to europe. let alone will come by you have neither of my children go to school in the uk i'm not happy about that to do 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. because. we've seen the images of dead migrants in the mediterranean sea.

and he said my wife is praying for my safe boyish to me you know coming in among she. knows i'm going to give our children a better future unknown to him on board ago when choosing not. to. move when i was living the course i would i pray to god how long the voyage went on the love and one of the god wants us to pray it was and to trust in him whatever happens it'll probably for today as i find me. a member of this house is being built by my brother who lives in our hostel and this one by my brother in law who do all this is mine i will smile when i return i would like to tear it down and build a concrete one and also one for my mother and the man. who.

was really tough on you for a model god will make it through with that one not getting good god damn gum god. you. are what. people like sally feel 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. is getting some advice before he leaves. the normally well we're going to get to the heart of. the. clutter good book

would come out of it couple people got killed. for. a long war. you know so when i want. you know me from a non pull model bomb a font on channel. one or a monologue number i love in a month or 2 with a walk never. been telling chen you know what. i

am fond of number 9 am we did it i am jenny i am a lady it damn can i stop am i eat all day i'm going to join you. about us and about the. normal engine would amount to one for some pleasant thoughts about that time. nominee. and not go when you're not well i got to see i've been laughing. i'm to see you be laughing wendy i'm going to get out from the one i lived through and then it's going to be very bad. when i'm mistaken you know fine can't go much and try to help and you know mom told me some form made in one lump that formed a long winded but i got out of the scenario goes on for me. here. by me we have no choice but a large situation here forces us to take this risk of you know you can even if i

die my children can be proud of me because i want them to that because i won't 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 you know . it's hard to tell if someone's on that way to the markets or on my 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.

for the man who hope to work on one of italy's tomato plantations have only one way to reach europe across the sahara desert and the mediterranean it's a journey that will cost some of them their lives. to lose. to. 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 survive 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 poorly 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 you know i mean if they don't work they don't earn anything that. we should be providing them with boredom and. i think we need to be given food. something to eat we. have been up over and over and when they go back to work they're back at square one if you've got. to talk with. the nanny and the news they have no nothing and no one who can help them and they

really give me. the. migrants contribute a substantial share of financial aid to ghana that would send remittances home every month even though he done so little he works as hard as he can and it's still never enough he lives not only with the way to his family's expectations but also with the hostility of many locals i said i was only $31.00 the a.p. about how many italians were useless useless people are now giving me calway be special for us they're afraid of us because we're black almost last month and almost went. yes didn't it work case and we are not that window commence to walk foot in his very back only day knowing what they are doing. so is with him for the money so

fucking his goofiness and beliefs. i'll see if i see anything i just don't know. case anything because i have the responsibility to put the landfall near. the. well. now without money. first and then i get it down at the shop more than i did but a future. well. good afternoon i've.

never had to. think that one of her more so. that would go by the whole military all. mobile. i just want to go back. and do something for myself. nice now. i'm growing. up i find my time packing my boy and i knew him when he. came with.

my x. welcome you for what you call. young people are sentimental and then have a heart king i want to know how much they are trained on the next one and how many issues that matter the most number of times coming true next. and. yet we are coming back for more and they stipulate we just know that there's 7 takes now beings and what it means to be on the to the crown will be on him i asked you where he got the big blank wall and i think i got it from the stage. yeah the 1st move is not many you somewhere out. there with that embankment just because i'm on now doing this bum thing that i just remembered home because my mother used to do this in.

there's a little i think i'll go but it will go go back to africa it will go left africa with ability to open you grew up with i just like you know that there's a wife and example but. how many years i spend in this country and i go back to my country. to me i look at me one day one day one week these guys was on my feet and i thought you might be. 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 a for it 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 once we start broad produce and on a lot of very large scale in 510 years we want to see their whole lives going to change him into producing quality. so matters. many attempts have been made to revive the gun lantern auto industry a factory was opened here in touch a man in 2007 but it's been closed for years perhaps it's about to get a 2nd chance. barbara and i think it's gonna draw it's gonna provide run everything they can because this is home we are. was the youth have to go and see off work then they will go after them. migrating through that doesn't include the military band where they will die. if the

government wants to make sure that the industry survive they got to the house to be aware of proof tucked into the investors office like reducing the reports from outside into the country but if the government does not provide dots comfort zone then the competition would be unbearable for us unfortunately. if the tomato factory was given a fat chance it might help boost the region's fortunes. trade policies could support development and struggling countries rather than endure it. that benedict his family might be able to another living from tomato farming husband could remain at home. and if it did decide to work in europe for

a while he might be able to travel fast safely and live and work in fact conditions . if. you only. barely knows with. me in this thread i was he. learned to. live yeah look every morning we talk every evening we talk feel on certain days you see young men with backpacks walking in the town but you know that they're going to the desert for a fight i will still feel 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 but we can live in this journey and just like our life you might win or you might lose that's why they make this journey alone what if.

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