In Germany, 5 kilograms of berries are eaten per capita yearly. And the pattern is rising. The German harvest can‘t meet this demand and that’s why many berries are imported. From locations the place their cultivation is unhealthy information for each folks and for nature itself.
Southern Portugal is a booming area for berry manufacturing in Europe. The nation’s cultivation zone has elevated fivefold in recent times – to nearly 5,000 hectares. One of many producers: Logofruits. The Portuguese firm grows blueberries on its plantation in Odemira on 75 hectares of land. For the proprietor, Lourenço de Botton, the most important problem is discovering sufficient staff for the harvest season. Blueberries should be picked by hand, a labor-intensive course of that requires Logofruits to make use of round 600 staff per day. Lots of these toiling within the orchards within the Alentejo area come from Nepal, India or Bangladesh.
Odemira’s mayor Hélder Guerreiro explains that just about 11,000 migrant staff from over 80 nations now dwell right here. This corresponds to round 40 per cent of the municipality’s inhabitants. Though on the one hand it’s a terrific alternative for the area, which has struggled with emigration up to now, it additionally presents an enormous social problem. One other drawback, in line with Guerreiro, is intensive farming’s big demand for water.
One factor’s for certain: a rising urge for food for berries in Germany has penalties for the nations the place they’re grown. Blueberries and raspberries additionally develop in Germany, however not all yr spherical. In summer season, supermarkets needs to be filled with regional fruit. However they’re not. Even through the home season, an increasing number of produce from overseas might be discovered on the contemporary produce cabinets. What does this imply for German berry producers?
Erik Appel from Darmstadt grows raspberries, amongst different issues. Nonetheless, berries cultivated in Germany are utterly completely different to these which were shipped over lengthy distances. These varieties have been bred to be significantly sturdy and long-lasting. In relation to raspberries from the area for the native market, taste is paramount. And in that respect, says Erik Appel, nothing beats native berries. By way of labor prices nevertheless, it’s nearly unimaginable to compete with imported items. In any case, Germany has one of many highest minimal wages in Europe. That is mirrored within the worth – imported items are sometimes cheaper than regional berries.
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Wild berries from Sibiria the best))
Every summer near Baikal))
Smell and taste like berries, but from eu and US.. Have some chemical taste…
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I like DW, they attack junk food in one video and in the next one they blame ppl for eating healthy because those consume water and come from overseas.
DW Tv is the best !!!!!
Why aren't there any Turkish subtitles? I watch your videos with interest and like them, but when there are no subtitles, it gets boring after a while and people don't want to watch them. Nowadays, many YouTube videos have subtitles in all the languages of the world. Why aren't yours? I want you to evaluate this.Respects.
nice documentary enjoyed watching it
Great video, it's important to choose local foods
Main topic interesting, but amount of propaganda "by the way" is tremendous… people saying good words about emigration, or using baikał in place when each other label has country name like chile….
Modern life gives us access to everything year round at affordable prices. The downside is life becomes more monotonous across geography and time. Nike, Gucci, H&M, Nestle, etc, can be found in London, Chicago, Sydney, and Taipei. Magoes are available any month of the year.
When I was a kid, a different fruit dominated the market every month or two. You could guess the month of the year by the fruits you see for sale. Off season they barely existed because those fruits weren't be as good and would be expensive, so few buyers. And you could smell the fruit when walking by. Refrigeration is a heaven sent equipment, but it strip away the aroma, especially the freezer.
Europe is notorious is blocking free trade in the name of phytosanitary measures and environment
Very interesting!
Good work 🎉
I've watched many "True cost of X product or Y service" videos, I've learned that, everything has a hidden true cost.
"If everything has a true cost, nothing has."
Omega Lulz. "Zee German" strawberries, grown in Poland, picked in Poland, zen zey being tranzfered from zee Polish farmer to zee Deutches farmer near zee Polen-Deutschland border!
An excellent documentary by DW,❤❤❤.
"STRAWBERRIES CHERRIES AND ANGELS KISSING WINE " an very old song 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Michael_swc
Super food
All the changes to fruit production like raspberries has eliminated one key thing: Flavor. There's no flavor in fruit anymore! If you've ever had a properly bush-ripened fully grown outdoor raspberry, you know how much flavor it has. The raspberries in the grocery store are flat and stale. They "look good" but are not sweet nor have any flavor to them. In a whole box, you might get one that is actually palatable as far as flavor goes but even that flavor still pales in comparison to the real deal.
Cost too much if your poor
Nice documentary
Toxic superfoood berries*
Serbia is one of the main growers and exporters of Raspberries in Europe and yet they have a non- GMO policy. Makes you wonder doesn't it?
I buy frozen berries. They come from the EU (which i'm in). That solves the seasonal problem I think. They are harvested ripe, so very healthy, and cheaper than "fresh" berries. In summer I throw them straight from the freezer in my yoghurt, and in winter I thaw them in the fridge.
Then there's still the the supply, labor and water issues we should try to solve of course.
In my opinion governments should reward local and sustainable growth (more). 🙂
I never knew 🍆🥒🍌were berries. I guess i'll have to start eating them instead 😳
In the Netherlands we have a problem now with an E coli bacteria of frozen blue berries from Poland. Several people are sick already… Berries washed in dirty water???
Frozen out of season…. educate people when certain foods are in season. …. and actually offer local produce.
Go visit your local farmers market.
Invest in more local acreages and cold storage for farming, get a higher output per season
Freeze them and sell year round.
Solving the water shortage is EASY. Most water used for agriculture goes toward producing food for cattle, sheep and pigs. All you have to do is use ocean aquaculture to produce algae/seaweed-based livestock food (no fresh water used), then you have an excess available on land.
Raspberry's in pots?
Wonderful 😋
Why can’t people eat local instead of exporting things from halfway across the world
Love the background music
Pretty sure i eat more than 5 kg of berries a year. How can you not, they are nutritious and delicious!
Buy local right from the farms, stop being lazy and get out there and buy them…
Hi, Im chilean and i work every season as a harvester in the blue berries sector. The work is very hard, here you work from 6 to 3 pm and you can work up to 7 pm if you want, with temperatures of 30+ celsius. So, yes, your back suffer a lot. The pay depends on how much kilos you can make, i would say its minimally superior to the minum wage, but its all informal labor, meaning that you dont pay taxes and get healthcare and stuff, it is precarius work. In recent years we chileans have struggling with inmigration, because the entrepreneurs dont want to hire chileans anymore, so they can pay even less to the ilegal inmigrants coming to our country, that sucks, we now they make a sht ton of money. I hope one day our work gets more valued and for the chileans only. Thats my history, enjoy your berries.
Maybe the last berry was picked by birds🤣 I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, thanks DW!
I call it bulshit Romanian workers earning 12€ for hour with bonuses . It’s lots of bulshit in this documentary it made me stop watching
Should just plant these things anywhere in public spaces, free foods abundance
We have a water problem, fruit need alot, don’t worry Europe has lots of it lol
I think we should prioritize getting our food from local farmers in our supermarkets and importing foods that can't be locally grown.