“The buying agent loosened the stopper on the scales as Raphael Ngurime’s bulging bag of cotton swung from the hook. The 69-year-old farmer looked on as his second harvest of the season was weighed. He didn’t know what the agent was doing, only that when the dial came to rest he appeared to have lost 50kg of his crop” – Why Tanzania’s cotton crop is still bound up with poverty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/oct/28/tanzania-cotton-crop-poverty
Article by Orton Kiishweko
Photo by Samuel Kamndaya
