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By Kate Chappell, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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KINGSTON, Nov 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Early each morning, Pamelita Dann arrives at her farm in eastern Jamaica hoping thieves have not stolen any of her crops. She carefully checks the onions, watermelon and papayas - more often than not, something has been snatched overnight.
Over the 14 years Dann has been cultivating her 2-acre (0.8-hectare) plot in Poor Man’s Corner, a rural community an hour east of the capital, Kingston, the 60-year-old farmer has had about $3,500 worth of crops, fertilizer and tools stolen.
“It happens every other day. As long as (the produce) is there, they will steal it,” she said.
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