they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that what maggie may like shit out there are hardly any people work in those fields in. business so more work for local people and my usually not for the plantations hire a few to drive tractors project right now back. here but apart from that they do all the work themselves by you and your family you should be sure. come on up to rectify so that. this building houses the sometime ram farm workers union. local people are benefiting very little from the soybean boom. smallholder farmers can't compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. what have you got there soybeans. no there's no so here. by. you know you some of them. are products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the small ones can you not think. you can try to plant corn down where you're going to sell it you know. in the end there's no profit to be had in. the markets only for big growers if you want to plant soil you need big machine tractors we can't afford that kind of equipment but i. saw a has

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