Oh yes, and you explained the situation very accurately. Self-sustainability remains a dream, as many productive farms become dormant after they are handed over, and the latest story is that we are starting to enter a food insecurity problem in the country. I read a report by SAHR stating that thousands of tons of edible food get dumped into the landfills. Surely a plan can be made for this to be distributed to the poor areas.
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This is the problem right, why are we not giving perfectly edible food away? Because it actually costs more than just to dump it. We drove past kilometres on kilometres of citrus farms when we visited the Drakensberg mountains, and it was just sad to see how much of the citrus just gets dumped because they are not in perfect export conditions. I just wonder how bad it really is, because we hoi polloi on the ground cannot see everything that goes on...
Well, look at it like this. Should the edible food and the citrus be donated for free to the poor, then the farmers and shops sales will drop, as thousands won't have to buy the products.
A crazy world in the forever hunting for profits.
I still hold onto this strange utopian idea that various fruit and nut trees should have been planted all across the country, unused city spaces used to grow fruits and nuts. It would have made the world a better place, as for-profit farming is such a sad system, where destroying perfectly edible food is cheaper than giving it away. Such a sad turn of events.
That would certainly be a great idea, except that some syndicate will send their people in to pluck all of the fruits. Easy pickings for big bucks !LOLZ
Like I said, profit rules my friend.
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Sorry again for the always late reply! We stayed a bit longer in Kleinmond and I did not take my laptop with me.
Eish, you are right. But we can at least dream! There are some fruit trees and plants growing wild in cities, like the very popular num num fruits maybe you have seen them around.
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Yes, we know the num num plants and there is plenty of them on the farms here.
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That is great! I always wonder why we do not invest more in farming local produce native to the soils! But that is just my utopian mind.
I sure did, only contact was with the fiance otherwise I would have been in the dogbox for sure!
Well, look at it like this. Should the edible food and the citrus be donated for free to the poor, then the farmers and shops sales will drop, as thousands won't have to buy the products.
A crazy world in the forever hunting for profits, to cover the costs.