tv To the point Deutsche Welle February 21, 2020 12:30pm-1:00pm CET
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it shortly after sunrise in the egyptian io delta droplets of foam got hardening of the pumps the workers are harvesting with a delicate touch it smells like a lever plantation. hussein factory owns this very special agricultural business it's not about fruit or veggies it's purely about the scent of the leaves and the blossoms he produces the highest quality robers. many of his essences end up with the sophisticated creation so the big purview houses of the world in the united states or in france. that.
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is being harvested g.-o. . but not sweet as we would find in the insalata comprehensive together with mozzarella and tomatoes this is where id is quite something levered basil full to be sent to oils. like. vanishing about the. face is this. verbena lemon verbena flavor to it so. if it smells citrusy lemon but it's a basal it's entirely and also members elect them. and what's interesting with this is we we propose it to the industry as a and there's a. replacer to verb aina which is not which is not allowed by ye frog in
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fine fragrance. honey take isn't exactly the strong point to the factory farms but it's not needed. because when harvesting precious essences it's all about delicate time intensive manual labor when harvesting the powerfully fragrant tuberose flowers for instance. weeding he's also a long winded procedure who takes a dozen men almost all day they have to exercise the can to avoid damaging tended to build stalks. but the workers have allies flying trusting and especially hungry helpers who settle right next to them.
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the image that you're catching over here with the naive grits that we call in arabic a subject for left which means the friend of the farmer just because. they work together the nightly grit is eating the the bugs behind the the weeding that the farmer is doing is basically a. statement of fact that. we have a nice balance taking place. the farm produces 80 different essences from sweet gums to lemon grass one plant caused hussein a headache for 4 years before it finally flourished he is just heading through the seal rosebushes the flower in the summer. the bruise gus he's worse than any most of you know perhaps at sunset you could see me screaming at my roses and trying to get the message across but. finally you discovered that i mean things
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come through patience rather than especially with nature rather than screaming and getting mad but of course when you're on the other side then things start to work then it's you get to be quite proud. you know to see a project like that develop with a rose that has never seen egypt before the bruises on his hobby but just as his business the queen of sense only reveals himself when the sunday puns are roma is intense it's exceptional there is no other botanical that pressures us and in that way and the fragrance is just outstanding it's this you know royal white blossom. fragrance and 8 is one of the keystones and if you're talking of classic french fine fragrance.
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a few grams more or less it's early still i'll carry on a bit i have time until 9 o'clock when he wasn't then and i generally said i had to satisfy. the factory farms are in the middle of the delta around 20 kilometers north of the city of tom tom the whole region is a paradise for the production of fragrances thanks to the fertile floodplain and the water. the just been transported looks leasure lake only at 1st glance in reality the jasmine blossoms have to be processed as quickly as possible before that precious aroma disappears before the aromas are extracted the millions of flowers away quickly but thoroughly because the sensed need to delight
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customers down the road. of the plantations of the nile delta the harvest is just a job quite so well paid one by the way the pickers get to your goals per kilogram the same price for the pickers who work on the factory farms and for the people who deliver the harvest from the surrounding area every morning. that means around 10 euros per night shift had a good $300.00 euros per month. that's not bad by gyptian standards where a teacher around $100.00 euros a month. to go to the article is for the quality is important that only the flowers are collected no storks no green leaves and as little water as possible everything has to be super fresh right from the field that we start at 2 in the morning and harvest until 9 after that
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it's too late and the flowers are worth less than a bit as. it . gets hot past money in egypt peka hala but her colleagues are on their way home there will takes them through the fertile dial delta with sediment deposits brought here over thousands of years by the world's longest river the nile it's as if time has stood still. there a jasmine fields everywhere thousands of pounds lead to the distillery owned by hussein factory and the other 10 plantation owners in the nile delta. some of the
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workers like pick on the farms others deliver the harvest in the own vehicle while yet others so responsive that night shift directly to local middlemen by saving themselves the trip to the way station. it's all about the queen of sense if we take all the pictures of the families working on the jasmine farms of the nile delta together jasmine provides a living for around $50000.00 people which. is the name of the small village that has been the hollers home since so whether it's in the middle of the nile delta is fragrant jasmine but it's one of her daughters he's already working on the fields which gives have better chances on the wedding market habit that seems very antiquated but not very bad she paid into the european line of pick up is like a bank people say the delta because their job does a safe income in the politically and economically tough times egypt has been
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experiencing since the revolution in 2011 that's all the more important hollis husband works as a pick up on the side despite a fixed income as a caretaker in a youth center. and as i looked him in one i've been picking at jasmine since year 6 at school for that it's allowed me to pay for my training and all the normal expenses i have and clothes food books and so on for the money really help with everything. if i think. even though the pickers income is above average there's only a 6 month season for the job would start sid may or june. that's why i come out runs a small pigeon breeding facility on the side the birds taste great and also sell for around 3 euros each. the whole thing is independent of the seasons because
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pigeons mate all year around. that's one way the people of the nile delta prepare for the flowers time in the winter people find a 2nd job. to seed factory and his wife jerry for are a dream team with a sophisticated aroma they both already had their farms before they met for the 1st time with a chemistry was right they joined forces and they now supply customers in 80 countries their business requires a sure instinct and a good nose customers only want the exact quality they need for their product the geranium oil and their role in essence can quickly be too bad for a perfect put also to good. to to have very high standards for
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the products they make do completely without chemicals the same is true in the ethical area these 2 don't just pay lip service to social responsibility. to be cheery for family to school 2 years ago there were several teachers in 3 classes most of the $140.00 pupils all the children of the farms pickens the oldest of them were already helping out on the fields. where i wanted to pass over the hill and i like the school very much we get books and can learn all kinds of things our teachers even teach as english and science we learn the qur'an and many other useful things we also read stories we have everything we want here.
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the afternoon classes up supposed to replace the state school but add to it and then it's very necessary even it was so interested way for the rober producers to reverse and to say. it's a huge black it's a huge black because what statistics are telling us is not reality we figured out that that people graduate from school and they don't treat them right and he figured out because we are here in a rural area and he would like to hire some people in a middle management jobs and they say yes i graduated from school well where's her c.v. come we give them a small. tasks to war and they're not even. in . the. dow it's time to process the jasmine.
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elaborate process lasting several days the very last drop of a rumor is removed from its blossoms step one the flowers are spread out in several layers in huge steel vents. after the lids are closed they are immersed in liquid except the cold solvent it's absolutely odorless and ideal for binding the scent of the jasmine. steps to the hexane is pumped into another container via a labyrinth of pipes look a bit be crafted in this container it's heated until it's almost completely evaporated. the. it's time for step 3.
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in the new this machine will be here now for just that thing and it is. a bit like in the wine industry the idea that the bottom line does article that you don't want to remain in the interests of the what remains of. your solution is what sent the final part of the work which got us the full breadth of our lives. the abassi is ready for the number of s's to be extracted in numerous quantities huge contains.
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this is what the bio mass looks like after it's had it sent to extracted hops blackish brown love. but he had to there's not a single gram of toxins in the heap which is why the matter is perfect for composting. before hussein took over the farm from his late father asked bed late ninety's he was a scientist and as a brain biologist he spent many years diving in swiss mountain lakes as a colleague of the deep sea pilot mia just be careful. hussein has remained a scientist every process on his farm such as producing food he lies and is refined to break it until the result is perfect oxygen saturation fermentation turns he developed until the compost has
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a perfect consistency. we're getting close to the final 2 production steps of the most valuable product here on the factory farms. the jasmine concentrate has been separated from any suspended matter and was repeated once again to produce jasmin concrete. it's now such a valuable liquid that it requires 3 signatures just to weigh it. when
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the liquid cools it becomes solid. unmoving in my hand here about 2 pounds the government law firm with our constant drinking and by . 40 percent of this is the bike rolled up black which cannot be used by the perfume in the remaining 60 percent because the oil and would take the name of jasmin up. and i can smell it and it now very nice and i'm sorry and all. the food the essence and said all around the world there's one. final production stuff for the solid yellow way waxy must. this material is what i'm thinking here and i want to see buy it operate. because i like it here for you. don't want to point to be collecting yeah.
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this would be a moment of time you know. what for fun down 3.33.5 tons of jasmine. palmer and her colleagues had to pick more than 3.3 terms of just me blossoms on the fields to produce one on you when you get container with 5 kilograms of jasmine absolute. the market value of this concentrate to concentrate to the concentrate is around 22000 euros sure sounds. but jensen is just one of the $82.00 products that hussein and jewelry for make on their farm. most of them don't come anywhere close in value to what the jasmine
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absolute is worth there's rosewater for example which is sold by the hand to lead to. the different essences are stored in the big hole until it's time to ship the. quality control from start to finish. every product is exactly did detail from the most expensive ingredients for the purview of his creations now to cheap both goods for industry customers don't like mistakes the quality can't be approximate it must be exact. we will. has seen a dog or a cat to this whole during all the days we spent on the farm that's probably because this intensity of scent would drive that delicate noses crazy even the cd a warehouse manager sometimes overwhelmed by told a constant old factory bombardment. over time the scent gets
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annoying i try to neutralize it and drink a lot of milk whenever i get a moment i catch some fresh air. for thousands of years people of the nile delta have made a living off jasmine the river is the lifeline in the middle of a hostile desert that produces the most colorful farms the nile delta the cradle of so it's. there's quite exceptional i mean we connect to the very roots of egypt both from the land point of view this is agriculture and planting and from the type of products that we produce our mattocks we basically relate to cosmetics and. everything dealing with beauty and people can easily imagine how this goes back to ancient egypt and saudi rose and so on and we basically still carry this and what we do.
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smelling something is something that you cannot catch something that you know comes very deep you have no control it's perhaps one of those senses if not the only sense on which you have no control i mean if you stop breathing you die you can close your eyes and you can sleep and stop watching that's no problem you don't have to touch things but you can't stop breathing. when the some sense the. thinkers who prepare for the next night shift rabbi graham kilo by kilo they collect tonnes of jasmine blossoms to extract tiny quantities of the aroma the aroma of which it said that no perf human would be thinkable without it jasmine the queen of sense.
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