Tomatoes they could be done as red gold the soil is ideal and theyve been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghanas 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 tomar says in ghana but in italy appalling conditions. Gonna build out 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 ghanas tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in paulo google there are many reasons an unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and global trade policy italy china and other countries are dumping canada and processed tomatoes on ghana is to look for it as far as. Im security when im not tired i wrote the 1st water on country you know what i feel better its very good for you and for everybody after the distributed factor so that the fighters are all there completed for. Last year i did 2 months for. The full got a month if you see do it. Wrapped line on the market and this like there was no work. So i always describe 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 cant bear the thought of giving it up. This factory once provided a livelihood to an entire region and new this is a good of the factory and mood. Of the factory because if this factory is working a lot of people are getting into. It past bruce is going to start. And everything is working. Theres no in the field this machine so you can hear all the time. That you have something that graph is is there sitting with you and not working is something that is true for strategic. If this 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 its the people on the ground who lose out. Benedicto a free fuck is a tomato farmer into a bottle in the middle of one of ghanas maims 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 work. 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 than here in the countrys 1st time the middle belt where you moved from but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown produce farmers are becoming increasingly worried that. Benedict grows tomatoes on the head tear of land include we believe weve. Got a lot of. The last thoughts and thats why unions would be also who we have to buy water every day when it doesnt rain. Water cost 120. 00 c. D. s 20 euros. And thats not even enough for the whole far to be asked about will 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 im up into milton all my. Crops grow in abundance here the farmers 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 its got to be we dont have money for fertilizer everythings expensive we cant sell our harvest and end up and that. I have a life in children to care for. Thats why ill have to head to the desert and try my luck elsewhere is it. Worth. It. Really really. Well for one could do more to make it to europe have better life somewhere you know yes life is hard for us every day we see people struggling and still. We have nothing whatever to do but know how b. And the museum already are. If the chance comes today or tomorrow ill head to the desert my farm is failing and the bank wants its money back im just rub it in the sky. And. Make. The money come back. Now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt to have to sell that produce to the market queens who sell it on in the cities. Quote theres a surplus of projects during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell it rock bottom prices. Is the amazon mantra 320. 00 c. D. s are they offered 270. 00 and said others are giving even last time at this price i wonder in anything after happening. That about yeah but you. Have 5. Wrong. Tomatoes are a food staple in ghana they account for 40 percent of spending on vegetables middle class canadians like their tomatoes canned ghana could meet at least a portion of its demand itself but the canned tomatoes here on the market are not domestic ones. Come out of china come up even if some of this has been some of the ill be very happy if we have a company here in town that we could use our own tomatoes conde and if the local people points of imported and frank and serious when i was a minute did when big money to that kind of tells the country to give up. Benedictus husband has gone to italy hoping to on money to help support the family to pay for the Childrens School fees and also so they can invest in a house and a well to irrigate that crops. Need to and you know what it took them down here my husband can earn more there than in ghana the city. He sends money every month. For me and our 2 children mainland play. She reminds me of my powers. Here in the village its obvious which families have relatives in europe theyre the ones whose homes are made of concrete its. A. 0. 00000 so despite the problems besetting the industry many have continued to grow tomatoes. Benedictus house is still under construction for now shes still paying rent. And i do mostly use here not because i need a the reason prefer canned tomatoes because theyre more convenient you just add water and theyre ready thats it thats me but i prefer fresh ones. And more importantly so with tinted windows. For just the idea that i have 4 friends who farm tomatoes. And theyre all ready to set out to the desert rats and those who you know who go on. And fall outside one month my husband is in europe and is making money and im workin here thats how we manage marriage and children how to school. Almost we also use his money to pay rent and part of it to complete our house. And as if you were here it would be very hard for us im always glad to see to believe and try their luck elsewhere quite. Hello. It is very. Iliana more now of the. So you know what. Yes. You till hes in italy he worked on an apple farm later on a tomato plantation and now he heard animals only one. Of them. Most canadian migrants live in other west african countries many also live in the u. S. And canada. And in europe. For gun and farmers theres 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 gun they took this path to italy in the last 5 years. Many african migrants end up in southern italy but tomatoes grown here are processed and sold in cans including ive 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 further lowers production costs few of them have resident. Punnets the day laborers are exploited by my field and i sanctions recruited by agents known as cop out on the peace middlemen pay them to create off today to talk to the commission openly in the community but if you feel particularly since you still believe this you know this before you go for it use it to have fun up with it all with the question of cocacola you know katrina news or. From one its even new google it plenty of. It did. Who offical cactuses money with that helmet you said you also. Didnt even know any look at her helmet one of clothing as yet you know full well who often kind of the countrys a big beard with the engine. Still ahead of us in the cellar monday and its kind of work no fun for the sink i know from all the telly all. From ottawas no farm you tell him what is it tell him to work on the machine. I did a month. And yeah i still dont want to. We are not working they eat anything again you pick it 11 which are right and leave the bed with. My foot i said them rice also if theyre used to the mantle of the company collapsed. By making a travel call if you need this room and now i live in a ghetto you see. Everything flew bator you see i was good then you do it by myself. At work down the other Seasonal Workers little shanty towns dilapidated hartsell tents in the middle of fields. Theres no water no sanitary facilities electricity or heating that. Theyre on where im living. Didnt know where im living. And ill never carry them because if i didnt go a little worried back. To how you are here you have to fight to go for your family. Or you even sometimes causes all of them doubt problem theyll call you and you can see that you can help them through a for years fighting like will know our life is like no use our life to help all family. In chairing the owner of the p. F. Try to scuttle cooperative grows organic tomatoes it also hired Seasonal Workers from africa but they earn a decent wage and are given proper contracts that not a day laborers at the mercy of the exploitative couple are allowed to system. The un shy kids from senegal and has worked on many. Dante shines. But he might even need a. Longer below or he 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. Now im here i understand whats going on i lie about that were being exploited he said. Well you know many people through what ive got so is head of the cooperative he wants to raise awareness of the plight of the Seasonal Workers. You know what i need to tell consumers when im dutch so that you could buy a can of tomato puree for 0. 40 Alex Abdul Giuseppe and antonio were exploring 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. 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 thats why a kilo of tomatoes often fetches as little as 5 cents. As a farmer im getting paid just 0. 05 per kilo now am i going to make a living its impossible maybe i need to buy the seedlings irrigate i need fertilizer i need to rent a tractor. Are there any either. These are not costs the only flexible costs are the wages i pay my workers we mustnt forget the copper a lot a system is a consequence its a consequence of a market that has spiraled completely out of control of all of the bonds. Because. Pietro wants to beat the system because tomatoes are sold through a Fair Trade Organization for 30 instead of 0. 05 per kilo. Bucking the global system isnt easy it involves restructuring the entire farm to consume a chain. Or is that a boon when you are no billionaire pietro aims to prove that process tomato products can be made ethically he wants his cooperative to serve as an example a small step to changing the entire production system. Because the video has lots of people saying we need to help the situation improve garnett so that these people dont come here in the 1st place weve got to make Global Economics and politics make that impossible theres no tomato processing industry in ghana which goes to show how sick the system is how utterly crazy system im 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 its really is just a minor player in the global tomato industry china is now the worlds biggest producer its exports tomato paste often diluted with cheap fill in gradients all over the world 16000000. 00 tons per year 10 times more than italy. The most to. Porton 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 gonna came under International Pressure want to try to increase import tariffs on tomato products to 40 percent of that now a 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to rise in the country. Economist corban all too is familiar with the problem and as an academic he can speak more freely than the dynamic government which has to take into account International Investors yeah fresh water in my time not you. Know not all said yeah wow. So this one child was. Only touching present a matter of. About 70 percent fact. The problem with this product. Is. The a more or less countries wanted to master. The market for 2 methods. Push him out. The mess to please us. So you have a large number of trauma to fathers who put most of us tomato paste and rice are not the only products jet. Dicing African Markets and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in 28000 for example maybe you also exported milk powder and concentrated and me to west africa. At this market in accra its easy to see how imports are driving out domestic products translates into job losses the electrons literally just trash an awful i believe. It translates into poverty. And to translate into frustration values nonpoor long to the top of this country. You do not have a capacity to change is this because you have lost control of the op was there a while back about 3 years ago bombed and pottle sic on food from the us and us could dump out of africa and work on a fortune which is. 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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. The man who hope to work on one of italys tomato plantations have only one way to reach europe across the Sahara Desert and the mediterranean its a journey that will cost some of them their lives. But 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 pulley 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 dont work they dont earn anything. See that we should be providing them with boredom and. 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Yeah its that embankment because im on my doing this bum thing why doesnt remember home because my mother used to do this in. Just going to go back to moving the ball go buckle africa like a fool i go left africa with possibilities welcome you grew up with i just like you know that there isnt what i found in congo but. How many years i spent in this country and i will back my country. To me i know that one day one day one of these guys who i thought my period and i want you might meet these. 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 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 hes 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 5 years we want to see their horoscope changes into producing quality. So matters. Many attempts have been made to revive the come land tomato industry a factory was opened here in touch in man in 2007 but its been closed for years perhaps its about to get a 2nd chance. But go on i think its gonna burst gonna provide run free and i clean because this is home we are. What is the youth have to guarantee of work then they will. Go after the migrating through the desert into the never to remain where they will die. If the government wants to make sure that the industries survive knowing the house to be aware of proof tucked in the industrious buffet like reducing the reports from outside into the country but if the government does not provide that comfort zone then the competition would be unbearable for us unfortunately. If the tomato factory were given a fat chance it might help boost the regions fortunes. Trade policies could support development in struggling countries rather than indirect. That benedictus family might be able to and a living from tomato farming her husband could remain at home. And if he did decide to work in europe for a while he might be able to travel fast safely and live and work in fact conditions. For. A few. Truly. Their landlord mostly. Me yes or no as he. Learned to. Live every morning we talk and every evening we talk for fuel on certain days you see young men with backpacks walking with. You know that theyre going to the desert. Where 5 now and still feel someone left a week ago but i havent heard if hes arrived. Not the 1st. And yes far as the danger goes we humans can die but we can live this journey out just like our life you might win or you might lose thats why they make this journey. High up above the glittering skyline of singapore and. Our vegetables. 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