L'agro-alimentaire en Anglais

Visitor: what do you grow here apart from sweet potato?

Farmer: Oh, we grow okra, we grow chili pepper, we grow cucumber, cabbage...

Farmer: We will go and see some of them in the greenhouse. We grow about 20 crops, a little bit of coconut and mango.

Farmer: you can see over the women are planting yams.

Visitor:  Why is that reserved to women?

Farmer: I like working with women, when we go into the greenhouse you will see women pruning because they take their time. Some jobs we give to women, they take their time and do it very accurately. Men work hard in the field, but you know us, we work like we are fighting.

Visitor:  I see the yam this big mound. They are planting new yams. Why does it have to be so big?

Farmer: The yam needs to be free to move, to grow and not have stones. That allows the yam to grow big and straight to meet the market demands.

Visitor:  what type of farming do you engage in?

Farmer: We have both organic and conventional. The organic is for a niche market. Most of the tomatoes in the greenhouse are organic.

Visitor:  How many acres do you have?

Farmer: The entire land is nineteen hundred acres but right now we are only cultivating six hundred. by the end of the year, we will hit all the 1900.

Visitor:  Ah here we have cassava. we don't focus on one product. We do crop rotation so at some places you have cassava or maize.

Visitor:  Why chose this region?

Farmer: I am a native of this region and I want to make Africa proud. We started gradually and this place looked like a forest. people thought we couldn't do it.

but I would here with my wife under the rain.

Visitor:  Where did you find the money? this sounds so adventurous

Farmer: we started with our own funds, small funds where we know that is our capability. twenty eight acres only and gradually we expanded and expanded.

Visitor:  what was your major challenge?

Farmer: The capital to get the equipment. In export market profit depends on volume and the bank doesn't see that. Bankers want numbers and figures and look at the profit margin. Then when you succeed, the shipping the produce become the challenge. The country doesn't have an organized way to do it. We resort to ship through passenger planes cargo.

Visitor:  let's visit the greenhouse.

Vocabulaire et expressions utiles

. agribusiness: Secteur agroalimentaire

. farmer: cultivateur, paysan, fermier

. okra: gombo

. chili pepper: piment

. greenhouse: serre

. pruning: la taille, l'elagage, l'emondage

. yam: igname

. organic: produit bio

. niche market: small, specialized or specific market.

. figures: dans ce context, chiffres ou nombres

. produce: produit agricole