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Yes, we have no bananas

机译:是的,我们没有香蕉

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WITH EMERALD-GREEN tea plantations stretching out as far as the eye can see, the town of Nandi Hills has its fortunes planted firmly in the rich, red soil of Kenya's highlands. In the cool of a dark market, women traders surrounded by beans, mangos and bananas wait for custom. Bananas seem an uncomplicated crop, but Pauline, a middle-aged tea farmer who also grows fruit and vegetables, says she used to find it hard to know when to harvest and send them to market. They stay fresh on the tree for weeks, but ripen quickly once harvested. If she and several other farmers tried to sell them on the same day, there would be a glut and she would not even recover the cost of taking them on the half-hour journey. "Sometimes I would just bring them back to the farm and feed them to the animals," she says. Yet on other days there might be no bananas available to buy at all.
机译:尽其所能地看到EMERALD-GREEN茶园,南迪山镇的命运扎根在肯尼亚高地的红土地上。在黑暗市场的阴凉中,被豆子,芒果和香蕉包围的女商人在等待习俗。香蕉似乎并不复杂,但波琳(Pauline)是一位中年茶农,同时也种植水果和蔬菜。她说,过去常常很难知道何时收获和将它们推向市场。它们在树上保持新鲜状态长达数周,但一旦收获,很快就会成熟。如果她和其他几个农民试图在同一天卖掉它们,那将是一个供过于求的过程,而她甚至无法收回半小时路程带走它们的成本。她说:“有时候我会把它们带回农场,再喂给动物。”但是在其他日子,可能根本没有香蕉可以买。

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    《The economist》 |2017年第9066期|8-9|共2页
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