East Timor coffee brews little profits
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
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By global standards East Timor is a small coffee producer, but it brews one of the world's best organic blends. Most organic coffee beans grown in the remote highlands of Asia's poorest nation end up in Starbucks stores around the world. However, East Timor is struggling to make a profit and some insist the country needs to modernise its farming methods. Al Jazeera's Drew Ambrose reports from East Timor.
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Why does it not spend some of its billions in profits from oil to help remedy the problem!
is the best that i have tasted BY FAR!!!!
So, the future of East Timor depends on Starbucks? LOL.
I live near the Gulf of Mexico, so I can show you one result of farming pesticides: oceanic dead zones. Maybe it solves some problems to use pesticides, but it also creates others and the long-term effects can be devastating. Colony-collapse is also caused by insecticides and if we loose the bees, we loose pretty much everything. We need to really rethink the way we farm. These people have been doing this for centuries without pollution. They should keep it up and raise their prices.
You do realize that organic food producers use pesticides? Plants naturally produce their own pesticides/herbicides through allelopathy. Every plant you eat has some form of pesticide in it.
No one is forcing East Timor to grow organic food for the West. The "developing" world is simply trying to cash in on fades of the "developed" world. What is disappointing, is that the farmers of East Timor have chosen to grow plants organically...which isn't environmentally nor financially sound. So they have to destroy huge swaths of natural land to produce a low yield harvest. As a result, they don't have enough land to produce enough food for themselves nor diversify their stock.
what is the subsistence agriculture like for these people? can they grow rice?
yeah, pesticides is a great idea!!! LOLOL
And turning acres of natural land into acres of farming land (which will be used to grow some kind of exotic species) helps the environment too? Yes, pesticides will have to be used because how else will farmers stop various species of insects, birds and rodents from destroying their crops? Not using pesticides forces farmers to destroy more natural habitat to make up their loss of crop. This is why organic farming is more dangerous.
Then why the hell don't you live in the wild then if you reject modernity?
Lastly, not to drag this on too much, but we are at a point where we can't go back to previous methods of agriculture. It couldn't sustain the current level of population on Earth unless we are willing to let billions of people starve to death.
It would be interesting to find out what the rate of cancer and other autoimmune diseases are in East Timor, because it is likely very low and would certainly skyrocket to the levels currently experienced in pesticide friendly counties. Very shortsighted on the part of their President. Vote him out of office.
Sounds like someone wants to sell some chemicals to these people and make a quick buck.
Oh yeah, because pesticides are doing such a great job for the environment.
Sorry, White Americans and White Australians. Remember, America supported and supplied weapons to Indonesia when they invaded and murdered the East Timorese and the Australia i think was like the only country after America not to condemn the invasion.
Do you want TL get high profits fast? grow weeds, marijuana, cocaine sell it to australian XD
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