We Feed the World Page #2

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Last year

$ 349 billion was paid

is more than a billion a day.

The result,

this is the dumping and the destruction of the agrarian economy

in the southern hemisphere,

where there are almost as

peasants.

Let me give you an example:

the capital of the Republic of Senegal

in West Africa, Dakar is

.

The city hosts

the largest market of agrarian

West Africa.

The market Sandagar.

On the market Sandagar,

you can buy vegetables

European

European fruit, potatoes

European

third of the local price.

So, Senegalese farmers,

even working 18 hours a day

In the hot sun

no chance

to earn a living through his land.

What should he do?

If it still has the strength, he emigrated illegally

and risking his life

through the Strait of Gibraltar

exploit and occurs in the southern Spain

or as a sweeper in Paris

accepting

living conditions precarious.

In Austria, it is inconceivable

that carts

roll on a main road as

here.

It's amazing.

The increased traffic is incredible.

And there are carts everywhere.

It is the means of locomotion n01

peasants.

They do everything with their horse.

My name is Karl Otrok

I manage the production,

Pioneer-Romania

The leading producer

seed in the world.

Look at those rows of carts.

I started in 1983 to Pandorrf

as plant manager

then I went to Szarvas,

Hungary.

I have developed

largest plant Ia

seed production in the world for Pioneer.

Then in 1999 I went

Romania

first as Technical Director

then as director of production.

There, left,

you have sunflower fields.

Ll there is to the eye.

It's amazing.

Tibe, that's how many hectares?

The whole, entire surface?

500 or even 1000.

500-1000 hectares of sunflowers.

It is unimaginable, a field of sunflowers

of 1000 hectares, right?

When you look down the road,

We see that two worlds

completely different

coexist.

On the one hand, the carts

and the other cars

conditioned four-wheel drive.

The farmers can not afford

a cart and plow.

The money is missing.

What fascinates me in this country,

is that it reminds me of my childhood

at the time when my grandfather

cultivated fields in Austria.

Everything is still natural.

It's fascinating.

It's like going back 50 years ago

.

Look at this,

they carry basket after basket, empty them

and it brings enough money to

they live.

It's fascinating.

You do not need to make a lot

to be happy.

It's like that here.

I do not know

if people are happy,

but they seem.

People who live in rural Romania

have fewer worries.

This is a hybrid eggplant.

She has a beautiful appearance.

But it did not taste that eggplant

then

that was planted from seed

we kept

years after years.

Ie When studying seed prices,

there

that it costs the price of labor required

to extract the seeds and dry.

The award amounts to 600 lei

OOO per 10 grams,

about 15 euros for 10 grams

.

Eggplant

This is really beautiful.

She dazzles the consumer is obvious.

On the shelves,

She has a head more attractive than

it.

But to see which tastes better,

must be purchased and tested.

For me, it is better.

I wish it does not change too fast.

Alas, it will change

as multinationals

Food

importing hybrid products

destroying all natural products created here,

eggplants, peppers

tomatoes

all natural products that have nothing to do...

With these hybrids.

I am fascinated by the way

that these people continue to work

plowing entire fields,

picking and planting by hand.

The quality of our food will drop

and the taste will suffer.

no going back, even

we should.

Our children will remember no more

had a taste of tomato, an apple

or

any other natural product.

All have a different taste.

You can not stop progress.

We do not want to stop it, in fact

.

It's like that. We do not want.

It will continue until # where it will be too pulled on the rope.

Pioneer has invested in the future.

It is on the market,

lot of seed,

and they were afraid of being left behind.

It must always be the first.

True to its name

Pioneer leader is always

Ie, the first.

Romania is, after France

second agrarian country in Europe,

With a surface

devoted to growing corn

3.5 million hectares.

And you can still increase

this area of about 750 / o

representing

phenomenal quantities of seeds.

Last year

the state has subsidized the purchase of hybrid seeds.

This year there is no subsidy.

Farmers must pay a high price.

The state thus makes farmers dependent

this product

because a hybrid is a disposable product

we can not cultivate once

.

We are about 150 km from Bucharest

a farm which extends over 400 hectares,

which 200 are devoted to vegetables.

Here too, we grow vegetables hybrid

.

In the field # where we are

onions were planted on 25 hectares

.

The farm has many employees.

Sixty around.

Their wage:
50 cents an hour.

The Onion

were offered for sale in Holland

priced at 27 cents,

which proved too expensive

because the Dutch can

buy the same

for 17 cents,

with their grants.

As a result, countries like Romania

Ia are disadvantaged.

If you start now to cultivate hybrid

your farming will disappear.

This is what happened in Austria.

We backtracked.

But it will take time to return to

biological

so-called organic.

Except that it has nothing to do with natural vegetable

that is grown here.

At one point a peasant,

or even country,

must, however, make a choice.

Does he continue to grow

products that taste good,

and produce little to no

satisfy a micro market?

Or does he want to mass produce?

I hope that small farmers

we saw yesterday

can not afford

hybrid seeds.

They will still have recourse to natural seed

to produce vegetables that taste good.

I have nothing against

hybrid seeds,

I just want

a tasty product.

And, for me,

Ies natural seed

taste better than hybrids.

It is nothing more to say.

It's simple.

Long before you arrive in Romania

had already screwed up the

Western Europe.

And now, we will destroy all your

agriculture.

Pioneer has other plans in mind.

I'm at 1000 / o

what management wants,

but here I express my personal opinion

.

And I see it that way.

We are in a field # where, on 61 hectares

cultivating genetically modified soybeans

.

It's Roundup Ready soybeans.

Roundup is a pesticide

destroying everything

begins to turn green and bloom

except soybeans.

They resist it.

Hence the name Roundup Ready.

Soybean is mainly used as fodder

,

Various Foods

already processed, like chocolate.

It is necessary that we become to the idea

that there is almost no food

non-GM.

In any case, a doubt remains.

Since we know keep soybeans,

could send in the Third World,

in countries that need it,

= = but does not send

there.

It is sold in our markets

then we have enough to eat

and than we do not need.

100 OOO When people are starving

it says it can not feed

Ies...

But do we really want?

Where does the money in general?

The poor.

Monopolize the Rich, poor non

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