Each day scores of lorries laden with tomatoes, onions and other fresh vegetables start the 1,000km trip from landlocked Burkina Faso to Accra, Ghana’s capital on the Atlantic coast. This journey - along smooth and tarred roads in the north and bumpy and unpaved roads in the south - should take between seven and 12 hours. The typical open 18-tonne truck crosses only one border, but stops up to 20 times as officials check documents and collect bribes. On the last 40km stretch, the lorry sways precariously from side to side as it avoids crater-sized potholes. By the time it gets to port, often two days later, most of its produce is perished. gga.org/analysis/tomato-catch-up
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:57:29 +0000
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