compost substances are new to them the advantage is they don t have to invest any capital. it s a big difference for me i wasn t familiar with some of the fertilizers but now my new colleagues have told me about them that s real progress for me to say dia and he said don t read to me about it when i log on it farming is better and more sustainable than other production methods that also require expensive fertilizers. or kooky. really moving you know. organic farming only requires what s already available on the plantation would work on that video we were now we will get out. the farmer is climbing the tree to harvest nutmeg it s important that they don t fall to the ground where they will rot.
then that s really sad but there s enough land in the region and plenty of development opportunities for the land so that these small farmers have other options they don t have to lay claim to land where the supremes court decided that it s for the company to use that was the. least among the names of. the villages of member can t just go and use other land. the fertile land is taken up by the plantation and the other surrounding areas are forested it would take a lot of work and money to clear the. development aid intended to combat hunger and poverty has worsened the situation here. the villagers are putting their hope in the district administration. we are still negotiating with their fans want them to give up at least part of the land which they do not use so that local
a local development aid it doesn t support the economy in the individual country it supports businesses in germany or in europe its aid for foreign trade and i think development aid money is there to fight poverty strengthen state structures and support health care and education but the reality is that more and more supporting foreign trade. european development banks invest in private companies to improve living conditions especially in remote rural areas for example in zambia one of the world s poorest countries people here have an average life expectancy of just fifty two in the northeast of the country a huge oil palm plantation has been set up it measures twenty thousand hectares in total and also features a mill to obtain oil from the fruits the operation is run by zambia s biggest agricultural and food processing company zambia.
thirty five million euros well known to zambia by several development banks in europe including the german investment and development corporation d e g a subsidiary of the k f w development bank zambia if used some of the money to found a subsidiary sampan. is a project which deals in. palm trees to produce is quick and. started in late two thousand and eight. we had our first knesset in december two thousand and eight. which told us a lot of bands that we tried to plant in two thousand and nine. the plantation started off with major problems a consultant had recommended the wrong type of palm tree then it became clear that the soil was too moist for oil palms. the company had the water table lowered by
the money was used to set up a large soy plantation. but here too the land was not empty some farmers were relocated. the majority of the land was forest it has been cut down. on my right hand side behind it you can see some of the natural natural bush forest that was so these particular fields were cleared from that bush. and to do that to carrots and make it just ready to accept planting you probably talking three thousand dollars a hit. in addition to the cost of clearing there were additional expenses of five thousand three hundred euros perfect for irrigation facilities pipes electricity cables and roads the business was able to expand the amount of agricultural land that could be irrigated by a factor of seven to have a spray year of possible here in zambia but that can only be realised if the water from the rainy season is captured so it can be used to irrigate the fields in the