This group of men wearing slippers, riding second-hand motorcycles, against the high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, fast shuttle in the jungle, the purpose of their trip is to go to the town 50 kilometers away to sell cocoa beans, the whole journey takes three or four hours, the men do not dare to increase the horsepower to run, because the road conditions are complicated, a little careless will fall fractures, and may even fall to death, just halfway through, one of the motorcycle pedals fell off, in order not to delay the time of the whole team, the man directly threw away the pedals, and then continued to move forward, along the way, the wind and lightning, Unexpectedly faster, they also arrived at the destination in advance, and after careful screening by the acquirers, 1300 pounds of cocoa beans pulled by 10 people were finally exchanged for 200 euros, and each person could get 20 euros.
Here is Ghana, a country on the west coast of Africa, because gold is famous all over the world, in addition to oil, ores and other natural resources, but the country's mining technology is limited, obviously sitting on the golden mountain silver mountain, but can only rely on agriculture to develop the economy, the local people to plant cocoa-based, which also makes Ghana become the world's second largest cocoa exporter, cocoa beans to pull Ghana's economy, but also to help farmers quickly get rid of poverty, many buyers come to collect high-quality cocoa beans, earn a lot of pots, And the remaining defective products, farmers will be processed by low prices.
Although the cultivation of cocoa beans is very profitable, but the transportation is very dangerous, most of the buyers will not come to the door, are farmers delivery, and Ghana's roads are difficult to say, even if the best technology, there may be mistakes, this woman's nephew is on the way to delivery fell to death, according to local customs, the family of the deceased for its custom to make a cocoa shape coffin, in fact, in Ghana, the craftsman will be according to the requirements of different people, the coffin into different shapes, some are big fish, some are palm trees, some are cars, Anyway, the variety is complete, all you want, in addition to the master craftsman also delivered to the door, of course, such a caring service, the price is not cheap, the cost of the coffin plus the transportation cost needs to cost 300 euros.
Hold a funeral in the local area, the whole village will come to help, the deceased will be displayed in the whole village, they sing and dance, it seems that few people feel sad, but a piece of laughter, in addition, the women will make cornmeal, and then with the secret hot sauce, in their eyes, what to eat at the funeral is not important, on the contrary, the atmosphere must be in place, the deceased from the send-off to the burial, the strong guys are rushing to carry the coffin, along the way lively, there is no little sadness, the more people, the more excited they are, this unique way of funeral, It seems that only the black guy can control the whole situation.
In addition to the cocoa beans to make a fortune farmers, sitting on a long coastline of Ghana, fishery resources are very rich, which has become the economic pillar of many residents, but with more and more fishing people, the number of boats on the sea has reached 200,000, the number of fish in the sea is getting smaller and fewer, some people in order to catch big fish, even use explosives, due to uncontrolled fishing, resulting in fewer and fewer fish, fishermen competition pressure is increasing, once out to sea, most of the fish caught are small fry, and urge buyers on the shore, but also in a half-cut way to buy So the fishermen end up making very little money, and each crew member is only twenty or thirty euros.
The buyer will process the purchased fish again, preserve it by smoking or marinating, and then transport it to the inland cities, so as to make higher profits, precisely because the pickled fish needs a lot of salt, and also drives ghana's salt industry, the endless salt pans, but want to screen out the fine and white salt, this will be a long process, the residents living near the salt pans, they live by selling salt, they soak in the salt pans from morning to night, the whole process bends to screen the so-called platinum, each person can screen two or three hundred pounds of salt per day, It's just that the buyer is particularly depressed, and the single mother Johanna works hard for only 20 euros a day.
Although this little money is not much, but the next few days of life have fallen, due to a long time in the salt pan, resulting in Johanna's hands suppuration, but her face is always smiling, after all, the family needs her to work, even if it is hard and tired, she still can not have any complaints, otherwise she will not make money, the young children will be hungry.