Sentences with phrase «banana plantations in»

So they have to make new banana plantations in a new area, clearing more jungle.

Of course, it's nestled inside a sprawling 760 - hectare banana plantation in Brgy.

Not exact matches

Take banana wilt, for example, a devastating bacterial disease wiping out plantations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...

Worker Exploitation: Many banana plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.

• Workers on Colombian banana plantations reported an average 34 percent increase in income due to their affiliation to Fairtrade.

Earlier, Minister of Agriculture, Chief Innocent Audu Ogbeh who described the flag - off ceremony as the beginning of agricultural revolution in the country, said stage has already been set to ensure massive plantation of cocoa, plantain and banana across the nation.

«It also signifies the beginning of agricultural revolution in the country as we are seriously bent to ensure massive plantation of cashew, cocoa, plantain, banana and other agricultural farm produce across the nation.

To reach the cages, we follow the main highway out of town, driving past soy, cocoa, banana and lustrous dark - green mango plantations thriving in the rich volcanic soil.

A variant of a fungus that rots and kills the main variety of export banana has been found in plantations in Mozambique and Jordan, raising fears that it could spread to major producers and decimate supplies.

Many villages along the coast, as well as the banana and sugar plantations, were left in shambles.

Ngansou and other villagers in the area have embraced the planned palm oil plantations as a welcome addition to a region that mostly survives on growing cassava, bananas, yam and coco, as well as the declining bush meat trade.

Kilamanjaro Premium Lager Marathon, Tanzania February 28, 2016 Set in the town of Moshi, this out and back course runs along the foothills of the famed and mighty Mt. Kilamanjaro, where you'll make your way through villages, farms, forests and banana and coffee plantations.

Academy Award winner James Cagney stars as the manager of a Caribbean banana plantation who would do anything to get away from the tropics and his underhanded boss — until he meets a woman hot enough to keep him in the Torrid Zone.

Many ex-slaves settled as small farmers in the mountains or on marginal lands in the plains away from the plantations, and the economy slowly diversified from sugar to a broader range of exports including wood, coffee and bananas.

We passed through banana, and avocado orchards and coffee plantations (said to be one of the best organic coffees in the world).

It's a three hours drive from Ocho Rios, again in a wonderful landscape with sugercane fields, banana plantations, bays and overwhelming, lush vegetation, alternated with crowded and messy towns.

Bicycling in crowded Bangkok, along wharfs where boats are built by hand, between plantations with rubber, palm and banana trees and along touristic beach resorts.

In addition to having 18 holes with an ocean view, the golf course features dozens of unique tropical plants and trees including several different types of palms, monkey pod trees, banana trees, coffee and pineapple plantations, lychee, citrus and star fruit orchards as well as macadamia and kukui nut trees.

Located in the south of Madeira, amidst banana plantations and wonderful gardens where flowers bloom all year round in the shelter of the verdant mountains, it is an extremely lush, green and relaxed city by day but scratch Funchal's surface and you will find it to have a vibrant and varied nightlife scene with multiple personalities.

You can visit one of the many banana plantations on the island like Bodegas Los Berrazales near the capital city Las Palmas in the North.

There are some lovely banana plantations nearby which one can explore, as well as visit the lovely butterfly gardens in the area.

While being propelled by a bamboo pole on this two - hour trip on the Rio Grande, you'll drift past banana plantations and through the «Tunnel of Love,» a limestone cave that will bring out the romance in anyone.

Through the wrought - iron gates at the end of a bougainvillea - lined drive you will find Plumbago - as pretty as the flower that shares it's name, set on an avocado and banana farm, it sits above the plantation watching over out to the Kruger National Park in the distance.

Minca is a small village in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where you can discover coffee plantations, hiking routes, waterfalls, banana trees and other tropical flowers and plants.

In order for the valuable basis blooming citrus and banana plantations is created.

The adventure will begin by picking the students up at their hotel at which time the beautiful drive will begin, passing through African palm, banana, papaya, corn and rice plantations as well as two of the greatest white water rafting rivers in Costa Rica, the Naranjo (the river for the adrenaline junkie) and Savegre (also considered one of the cleanest and most beautiful rivers in Central America).

Tazacorte is a quiet, rural town of multi-coloured houses located in the south west corner of La Palma, surrounded by banana plantations and blessed (so locals say) with more sunshine than anywhere else on the island.

We will pass through banana, granadilla, and avocado orchards and coffee plantations (said to be one of the best organic coffees in the world).

The surrounding area is countryside, rich in vegetation with banana plantations, citrus groves and vineyards which lead inland to the gentle foothills of the Western Troodos Mountains.

Elements of the work include wall text around war, imperialism, and democracy, historical footage of US militarization contrasted with the ruins of contemporary bases, forms of labor and production in the industries of mining, fishing, and banana plantation interspersed with interviews with workers, and a lush, dreamlike, and perpetually dissolving set of landscapes set against some of Dizon's own reflections on life, death, land, return and passage.

There was the massacre of banana plantation workers snatched from their homes in 1988 that provoked her sculptures in the late 1980s and 1990.

In the large sized Frimkess Chilean Landscape Pot (2015), we see a rich narrative involving banana tree and other tree type plantations, neighborhoods with small houses and tiled roofs, children riding their bicycles, a lake or a sea with a couple of traditional fishing boats, a SPAD biplane flying in the blue skIn the large sized Frimkess Chilean Landscape Pot (2015), we see a rich narrative involving banana tree and other tree type plantations, neighborhoods with small houses and tiled roofs, children riding their bicycles, a lake or a sea with a couple of traditional fishing boats, a SPAD biplane flying in the blue skin the blue sky.

View of Stela C at Quiriguá, an archaeological site in southeastern Guatemala that dates to the Maya classic period and is the location of the United Fruit Company's former banana plantations.

Here's what that looks like in practice for an orange plantation: Instead of trying to maintain neat rows with orange tree after orange tree, Milz would regularly intersperse shade - tolerant banana trees.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

Most bananas are grown on vast plantations by huge corporations in what used to be known as banana republics, but Fair Trade ensures that the workers get better pay and better conditions.

Nothing comes for cheap — and though bananas may be the cheapest fruit in your basket, it's often at the expense of plantation workers.

If it was deforested and then a banana plantation was put in place, it would be closer to net zero emissions.

Ramón described a big flood that destroyed many of the banana plantations and coincided with a general labour strike in 1954, thanks to a constitutional reform that finally gave workers permission to organize.

Represented the Republic of Nicaragua in an arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, to obtain compensation for the cancellation of an investment contract for banana plantations by an American company.

Ramon Quisumbing, the managing partner, is representing two of the world's leading chemical companies in several damages and tort cases filed by several thousand banana plantation workers, which together constitute possibly the biggest such suits in the Philippines.

In Innisfail he worked on a banana plantation for $ 25 / hr, twice as much as he was making at his entry level design job back home.