and they're super healthy and trendy, enjoyed sweet or savory. the victim and rich fruits can be found in supermarkets year round. often though they've traveled a long way to get there, to the dismay of local growers. the thoughts of jim and mary production come compete if it comes down to probably 5 feet. what's the real cost of our craving for batteries? the needs of water is very high. we really have uh, what's are a problem? can we still eat varies with a clear conscience, the, the average german eats around 5 kilograms of berries a year, blueberries, and raspberries are especially popular. and are what you'll find in the supermarkets, fresh approaches section. most often. they come primarily from portugal, romania,

or ukraine. even in the summer, during germany's own battery growing season, the few local offerings are more expensive than the imported berries bias that we went to barry gore, eric apple in don to search for answers in summer, the main harvest season. his family business long, specialized in green, asparagus and strawberries. to extend the season, apple added a new battery to the lineup. to see me on my own website that i yeah, we have been growing raspberries for 3 years old. my 1st you plans a small area to see if you can manage and if there's a market when you and if everything works on women is as you get confident in managing the crop you expand? that's exactly how we did it yet. to the apple as cultivating some 20000 desperate

plants spread across to heck tiers the some berries are delicate, so green them as old as tricky. do it for being precise. technically the respirator isn't a battery at all. but technically speaking, a battery is a type of fruit that encases multiple seats and its flesh. examples include blueberries, elderberries, current tend gooseberries. by that definition, bananas, q, converse, bell, peppers, a plans to mount tubes also fall within the battery family. raspberries and blackberries, on the other hand, are what's known, but technically as packet drips. yet they're still counted as berries. the same goes for strawberries. there aggregate accessory for its raspberries aren't easy to group. as eric apple. well news, a constant supply of water and nutrients is crucial. too much. water hinders root

goose. 2 little leaks of very small and dry. the handle of sorting by the main challenge with raspberry or barre cultivation, in general is irrigation. won't you need to deliver the exact amount of water the plant needs at the right time. you can't just follow a set schedule for 3 weeks time ship, you need to reevaluate daily. and then every morning i can always get them getting along. eric, i cool get support from theory consultant, touch screen catch up with that. who's been an adviser to the farm for over 15 years, all along so much that we had out back and i noticed something we should look at on . charles was this close to the school? chris is pest control eric chapel discovered methods in the morning. these tiny pests leave a sticky residue on leaves and berries. yeah, look here, here's another one. 0, yeah. that looks like a raw spray sides from the pale colorings,

some 2 of them are defined sufficient to kind of, if you only find a few, then was a big problem. but you have to monitor things. if the numbers start to grow, that's as in this field, we use helpful insects like parasitic was, as natural predators against the effects. this was as control is an ongoing effort . releasing credit to re mites is another way to fight the parasites. respirators thrive, inconsistent warm grass cover helps keep summer temperatures below 30 degrees celsius. the plastic tunnels provide additional protection. the ongoing for the nation has increased significantly and recession is with a major advantage of being protection against the weather. and this it means with shielded from heavy rain or hailstones as well as the sun creaking with a hot ross. but he's a highly susceptible to some of the 100 foot flows on us, so you can be able to see as long, blonde and fitness. despite all these protective measures, new harvest is guaranteed. aristotle, what newest the season was

a success until autumn these days german gore's harvest raspberries from lakes mace. in mid october, the princess lost much of a seasonal identity because because we've been tracking developments in the very market for many years, hobbin endorsement in germany the season is short and availability of fresh produce is limited carts devolving, especially blueberries and raspberries have become year round product of the of doc to i'm going to be honest, supermarkets offer them all year round, the leases and consumers demand of them all year round t o is on its own trumpet, all his card and all comes. he always knows as a result, the berries travel ever greater distance is to get to german supermarkets in winter . they arrive mainly from peru. besides, the american country exports around 300000 tons of blueberries

a year because you look nearly a nutritionist from the vienna environmental advisory board has long been studying the ecological impacts of very cultivation. and within less time there's the blueberries, are being grown in the middle of histone deserts, and they would naturally grow there and couldn't survive without being planted in plastic bags filled with soil and then regularly fertilized water. and if necessary, treated with pesticides, just going to go with the stitching behind the system. achieves records yields harvesting takes place almost a year round, prove is know the world's largest producer of blueberries. businesses theme, how this system uses up a tremendous amount of water that leading to rivers being diverted once. so that dries out other areas in causing shortages and potentially sparking conflicts over water the same could happen in portugal for annual blueberry exports 228-5000 tons generating some $260000000.00 euros and revenue

the they are to intensive farming has had ecological consequences and the other end table region, a reservoir provides walter for both plantations and residents. but what's your levels are steadily dropping in recent years, the region has also face prolonged troops. l d, i get a true mirror of the mirror is worried. he says there would be sufficient welfare for the citizens, were it not for the enormous demands of agriculture. we really have a water problem. so less because we didn't have enough water in the center. cleansed them because we had it. but the, the needs of water is very high, so that's why we have now a big problem because we need that a lot of water for agriculture. we asked separately regional drawers,

how they're handling the issue. only local fruits gave us permission to film managing director lorenzo to put home estimates the company's annual walter demand that's 3000000 liters per heck tear. all of our production is in parts reducing the necessity of water drastically. additionally, we have a lot of different methods to uh, to gather the water from the drainage is from the rain from the condensation in the plastics. that saves almost 30 percent of our necessities. so, mean we're doing our parts as local fluids. it's a challenge as it is throughout the whole world, water, more and more, it's becoming the new goals. google fruits cultivates blueberries on 75 heck tiers of land focusing on hardy, high yield varieties peak harvest season,

the rise in summer. we follow triple home surveys. the company's feels between this must be of a and other virus these next week. yeah. but then you're going to start to pruning . we're going to start moving the plan. so the people that were hard to say will never okay. look at this, this. we will have 2 people per plane, $22.00 and a half. blueberries contain high levels, approve of them in a, in the body. this converts into victim an a which is essential for our sight. they also contain large amounts of folic acid and iron substances crucial for the formation of blood cells and cell membranes there. hi, richmond. content helps prevent sell damage. the fruits blue color comes from and so scion and also believe to contribute to sell protection. the blue batteries must be carefully picked by hand,

an arduous task so there is a lot of selected on the plan. you cannot just grab a, it's very high quality fruit, so it's very demanding and labor and it's time consuming. so for example, us doing the peak of harvest, which of the month of may, our needs of worker are $600.00 workers per day. the batteries are harvested a few days before the fully ripened. this makes them more robust for transport. this particular variety has been bred specifically with that in mind. it's a different story for german batteries which don't have to travel long distances with those. the priority is taste a bit of apples farm. the berries also have to be picked from the plants by hand. during harvest season, that work is done by around 60 seasonal workers, most of them from romania, they earn at least 12 years per hour plus bonuses. what is the cost of our biggest

cost? is labor of wages and planting costs are recurring. annual expenses often it's not just the harvest on their mobile cell. you also need to care for the plants doing specific task phones. these plants need constant attention that, of course, costs a lot and raspberries are good for you. they're rich and be the timmins which trends in the nervous system and play a vital role in metabolism. they also contain significant amounts of calcium and magnesium. calcium is important for strong bones and teeth, or magnesium plays a key role in muscle function. as good harvest means everything to eric hoppel, his goal is to kilograms per plant to achieving this requires almost a year of work. the young plants are placed in tunnels in february where they're nurtured. wafford unfertilized,

the 1st significant returns come in june. we get expensive for you invest a great deal upfront hoping for a harvest later others. this maximizes our risk maxima, if, for example, the late for us destroys the harvest and see how we've encouraged all the costs of the gains and nothing. how much retailers, the risk is pretty low and the police, they'll just move on to the next producer. that's all you gotta produce. was can only handle that with their own resources. i can admit an offer and you can maybe manage it for a year. i just, i know even that's difficult. i'm sure you have if it happens twice, you're finished on this from the germans each more than one kilogram of raspberries per year and the amount is on the rise. that's a good news for local producers, isn't it? as you start facing sort of spend down a hyphen good, looking back 10 or 15 years german production accounted for a significantly larger share of market supply or my height would be under a blueberries. it was even more than half sort of the door. it's not that german production has shrunk, or rather the market has grown dramatically. it's expanded massively driven by

imports to boxing. when i is full, i didn't even think of it. the import mazda deluxe, and in germany over 80 percent of the blueberry market supplied by importers. a fact driven by demand for year round availability and lower prices. that we thought was that one defeated solution. because there are differences between the survey responses and actual behavior. and if people have car gets in to provide fuel consumers or actually they're willing to pay more for local or german produce. that's what the answer is. overwhelmingly yes, i would. if i thought that if you look at what ends up in their shopping carts, john, it's often the cheaper product is good in speaker kodachi beam fall, in this case, the imports of all the back to portugal. why is important prod you so much cheaper than german produce? what consequences does are growing appetite for berries have the

in the past 10 years, blueberry production in portugal has increased nearly 25 fold. as a result, demand for labor has risen significantly. many workers are recruited from asian countries, such as nepal and bundle with dish i think socially, if it changed, ever since. yeah, for almost 80 different languages, 80 different cultures, people asked something different way. this is a very, a very big challenge. it's something for the future. it's amazing that we have so many diversity resulting in the past decade over 11000 workers have settled and it wouldn't meet our municipality. they may have about one 3rd of the population. they're often forced to live in overcrowded spaces as environmental consultant became mcneally to coleman from and they come from developing countries

and live here under extremely poor conditions with no hold to face group if they also work under poor conditions, excessively long hours, low pay, and hard labor on police going to have to all, but we tried to speak with workers in the town of south taylor, tony you without success. everyone we approved worked on very farms in the region, but they politely decline to speak about their circumstances. the delivery carmel, the legal for it is about half an hour away. the company allowed us to film their operations and speak with their workers. young i should good room arrived here from his homeland and paul, 4 months ago, many of my dear deeps and friends, and then you're looking for those that told me or a good event it is. i'm supposed to go. so that's why i came here. i have not so much a ducked working it skills and experience and nipple literally. uh,

but when i came in for to go, i have many opportunities and a lot of care the hope for a better future. portugal is the minimum wage is among the lowest in the you. currently around for euro's 50 per hour, the logo for the claims to pay slightly more. the owner understands how difficult it is to find and retain workers under such conditions. the. the main challenges is the lack of labor a lot this year, but typically that's our main challenge. finding the right number of people to address this company. first, various incentives, bonuses for good performance and on site accommodation and meals for 60 years. seasonal workers are paid through temporary employment agencies which have faced

criticism in the past. the company says it's address that issue to we have a person, an internal person who is in charge of making sure that these external companies that get the labor that they pay. what is due to, to the, to the harvesters in time, the full amount. so there is no difference in the, in salaries. that's the exception. in some places, workers aren't even paid minimum wage. some are forced to hand over their passports . is the price others pay for germany's dependents. unimportant produce and desire for cheap varies nova fruits packaging facility near lisben in the course of one ship up to 15 tons of blueberries are inspected, sorted, packed, and prepared for transport. here

the company exports almost exclusively to northern and central europe. these pallets are headed to a large supermarket chain in germany. they are transported by refrigerated truck, kept to the constant 2 degree celsius. it takes about 3 days before their own supermarket shelves. the situation and dom shot is completely different for actually harvested berries, end up on shells within just a few hours for calculating heat. typically, there is a compelling argument the thoughts of human very production and comp compete. if it just comes down to price, it production costs a way too high for that tool. but jim and barry was all competitive when you look into the freshness of in taste and quality heats on the smart, short transport distance is play a big role to of course you to be not up to you and those are the factors that work . and i'll say the indian dodge clinton couldn't raspberry producer

a capital supplies, major german supermarket chains be a cool. currently, he gets one year to a 70 for a 125 gram container. the price changes weekly and depends among other factors on market supply. there's a lot of competition and price pressure is high. it apple earns less than one year to per container. he has to stop harvesting. he simply can't cover his costs. i'm very farming faces even more challenges down the road. can you move on to some courses? climate change is a major issue with the how is the weather changing? what's the hardest stock hail and heavy rain are always bad for crops like this, but we've also observed recently that excessive sunlight and high temperatures aren't good for product quality either. but when, in some cases, certain locations may no longer be viable for production, even just on order for the product on ultimate self,

batteries are particularly sensitive to changes in external conditions. so how can we future proof our batteries? that's the very question drive in place and scientists. dr. klaus older. his research is focused on strawberries as being reading strawberries for over 20 years. now also as part of a new research project called reading value. the goal was to develop a variety that sustainable resilience and full of flavor this and then it's hiding behind a change in water scarcity or the backdrop to all of our considerations. several mediterranean countries where these issues play a big role or part of this problem. second, spain italy, parts of france, but now it's more and more relevant here in central and northern europe to here in mid to another world. there are 23 species of wild strawberry in the world. don't for old, rich company has gathered them all. the genetic diversity probably wounded this

greenhouse is unique in all of europe, a diversity that's at the heart of the you research project, especially since wild berries are particularly automatic. and again, when we stand here in the greenhouse in may, it's an incredible experience to see the room of wild strawberries, mixes with coconut banana and peach fragrances, or no matter the strawberry variety, their victim. and c, content is remarkable, higher than that of lemons and oranges. strawberries are also rich in potassium, and the sink potassium strengthens the heart of the trees element sink boost our immune system, and it's even said to enhance with me to commercially cultivate his shrubbery. varieties are bred primarily for transportability of yield and ease of harvesting. tide by cross beating them with wild species. the fruit

gets a kind of genetic read through the nation desirable traits such as lou, what's her requirements are specifically targeted? the found talking 25 dignified drought tolerance and winter hardiness, which we find much more in wild space since then, and cultivated ones. working with the lute fish maximilian university in munich. and we've also discovered a resistance to the spotted wing fruit fly, which we want to add to our breeding efforts assistance. because when do you feel like it's all, it's just always make notes. inviting. strawberries are the most popular berries in the country. germans can seem about 3.7 kilograms per person per year. the red fruit is especially healthy during the domestic outdoor green season from may to july. when it's particularly rich in 50 mins and minerals. the same applies to wild, ruined berries, the lot of glue,

etc. and yes, meaninglessly miller wants to make, they are very consumption, more sustainable. there are picking fruit in the city, helped by them when called it leads them to publicly accessible berry bushes across germany. then it says here, there's supposed to be a raspberry bush just ahead stevens or its limited thinking back. it brings a beautiful childhood memories. but honestly, i haven't done this in ages. the thing buries like in the old days, a pleasure that seasonal local. i'm completely free. see i'm at a phone. we can check over there that looks pretty promising and screwed off the mac shoes, blackberry bushes nearby. the dark varies are in season right now. i think i can just eat them now. step one, you must be careful the ground level because of fox tape,

or you should only collect fruits. you can identify with 100 percent certainty. and of course, respect property rights. this, blackberry bush is growing at the edge of a public pathway. we usually visit museums or study architecture, but we rarely look at what's on the side of the road. so this is great from an urban perspective because it raises awareness. we're foot bushes exist in the city of fulton to help don old. so i can ashton from may to september german cities and municipalities offer a plentiful buffet for berry fans. usually, someone's obviously goes from the jump here, the bushes being picked clean. whoever picks the last berries the supposed to update the app. you can also love new locations when you discover the fruit trees can be marked to helping to expand the network over time. the yield after half

a day of wild very picking is modest. i'm curious if they taste good to choose the best seller right? this is the seasonal local and full of flavor. the classic mix for guilt. free pleasure. if you want to stay, truly dedicated, enjoy berries in the summer and build up your anticipation over winter that wait, wait for me. next year's harvest taste even better. the

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