To rubber and. the plantation begins right behind his house for the 1st time we see how rubber is harvested. the rubber latex strips out of an incision in the bark of a tree it can be harvested in a liquid state or through the addition of vinegar as they re doing here to get the rubber to solidifying and harvested in solid pieces. boss a product employs more than 50 workers on his plantation later we will discover what kind of conditions they live in. boston ponte has just planted new rubber trees despite a glut on the market that s driven a steady drop in the price per kilo. so we used to earn good money with our rubber. the happy department. when matt but
Conditions. every year the rubber harvest in cambodia grows by 6 to 7 percent and to this growth is not in sight. on the edge of the plantation the next field is being burned off to clear the vegetation and make space for even more rubber trees for even more rubber for car tires. we ve seen enough and fly back to germany to confront the tire industry with our findings. we try our luck again at continental headquarters in hanover. in 2018 the automotive supplier had a turnover of 44400000000 euros. no one here wants to be interviewed but they do at least give a written reply to some of our questions. continental uses natural commodities
5 years ago the price suddenly plummet it now we have to say where we can a to get by give the plantation owner himself is feeling the pinch what about is workers you on the edge of the plantation we find their decrepit hides the workers are all come from neighboring cambodia they re willing to work for a lower wages on times in me you as well as prod amount to phone him lie work 12 hours a day 5 days a week sometimes mall how other poll steve it s night has fallen on by was who pots plantation it s the best time to harvest robber and that the cambodians are getting ready to go to work there
Night shift starts at 8 pm and ends at about 5 in the morning with just had torches for a light base flies deeper and deeper grooves into the tree trunks to keep the milky late tax flowing no i was been working on the plantation with her family for the past 7 years between and 3 year old can t redo arm right all if i earn very little here between 400-5000 baht a month the i thought by the of hold be a lot of people in the monkey much for that i have to work every day and at least for now nights. hard night shifts for a mere $140.00 euros
. behind the factory is the factories own rubber plantation amid the trees a ramshackle hot. not far away we meet an elderly couple collecting rubber. and. the like the. i mean i m over 18 and i ve been working here for 50 years. my back then the old gentleman was the boss. and the plantation was high up in the mouse. cursor will be. clinched. and his wife live in grinding poverty while the tire industry boasts
Industries play played the impulsion role tool tycho to me so. i think the people in this industry might want to keep some secret with them states quite a bit difficult to get information from from them. our 1st stop is in col come our district southeast of bangkok. large amounts of rubber are growing here. thanks to these contacts we gain access to one of the plantations. the owner inherited the plantation from his parents might actually have. this had they gone and got the mammoth the past this area was rain forest my parents cleared the whole area and started cultivating it 1st they planted rice and sugar cane but later they switched