Condividiamo breve reportage video prodotto dal giornalista Richard Bilton per la BBC che vede anche la partecipazione del progetto MH – Osservatorio sulle migrazioni Lampedusa:
Quasi 19.000 migranti hanno raggiunto l’Italia via mare nei primi tre mesi del 2016, fino alla fine di marzo, quasi il doppio rispetto al numero dello stesso periodo dello scorso anno. Le ultime 4.000 persone sono state salvate il Lunedi e il Martedì di questa settimana, e appena il tempo migliorerà, i numeri andranno ad aumentare.
Farmworkers pick strawberries at Lewis Taylor Farms, which is co-owned by William L. Brim and Edward Walker who have large scale cotton, peanut, vegetable and greenhouse operations in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019.
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Mr. Brim talks about the immigration and disaster relief challenges following Hurricane Michael. USDA helped this farm with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) for structural damage cleanup. He also mentions the importance of having Secretary Sonny Perdue, a person with agricultural background, come visit and listen to 75 producers six months ago, in southern Georgia.
The farm’s operation includes bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon and a variety of specialty peppers on 6,500 acres; and cotton and peanuts on 1,000 acres. Near the greenhouses is a circular crop of long-leaf pines seedlings under a pivot irrigation system equipped with micro sprinklers. Long-leaf pines are an indigenous tree in the Southeast. Growers are working to increase the number of this slower growing hearty hardwood tree in this region.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung. Original public domain image from Flickr