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Deryck
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Photo: Abigail Hadeed/Oxfam |
Deryck is
a 21-year-old banana farmer. He sells both fair trade and non fair
trade bananas.
"The problem with the bananas you don't sell as Fair Trade
is that the price always goes up and down.
I cut bananas on a fortnightly basis. My girlfriend washes and helps
with the packing, and sometimes my dad might help out as well. Basically
all the family is involved.
My mum and dad have noticed a lot of differences over the years.
They say things have got much harder now."
Fair Trade
"I'd like to thank the people in the UK who buy Fair Trade. Please
keep on buying and then hopefully the quotas will get bigger and
maybe we can sell to places like America and Canada.
We've lost a lot here over the years. If things don't improve then
banana farming will be a dead industry."
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