the turn is bored ga in western ghana has a population of around $5000.00 since 2008 when a rise in gold prices led to a surge an unregulated mining dozens of young men have been dying each month no one believed mercury was to play in. we did no used to suck the mercury into our mouth and throat so that we could get the gold were mentioned all the guys working with mercury got sick when they got sick we didn't think it was the mercury the brought about the illness we put it into our minds that we had committed a sin against the gods. back in april the voicer is news agency spoke to this man who developed lung problems after being exposed to talks and while mining here's what he had to say. so if there's someone out there if you're a young man today and you want to get into wildcat gold mining i say to you you have to be careful of the dust. so look at this isn't what i used to look like. a few weeks after the interview he died leaving behind his wife children and the house that gold helped him build. now you may have heard that there is a bull market for legalized marijuana in the united

just represent using our resources at home to actually produce the finished care back to western ghana and orlando as mana with his family this year one kilo of dried cocoa beans will earn him the equivalent of one euro 30 but only if the quality is right as in the case of this pod. we know. so many of the pods in my harvest have been spoiled. the good ones like this are few and far between. if you look at parts like this one you think you have a large but actually you haven't. fallen no us man who is in a difficult position his new trees aren't yet bearing fruit and the more established ones arrive the diseased will no longer producing good cocoa pods in sufficient quantity but his farm is at least on the road to recovery. once harvested the beans are left to ferment for a week under banana leaves at the plantation then they spend another week laid out on stands in the village to dry in the sun. the farmers pack the beans in $64.00 kilo sacks and sell them to companies licensed by the state everything is regulated centrally including the amount of money they get for each sack. for thi