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Destroyed cabbage. The unit price is so low it's not even worth transporting it to the market place - it would end up costing the #armer. Instead, the farmer must drive his tractor over his entire field, to smash the rotting cabbages : they will at least fertilise the soil. Visiting vegetable fields of Areti and Fanouris Alexopoulou, a farmer couple in Mires Village.

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Destroyed cabbage. The unit price is so low it's not even worth transporting it to the market place - it would end up costing the #armer. Instead, the farmer must drive his tractor over his entire field, to smash the rotting cabbages : they will at least fertilise the soil. Visiting vegetable fields of Areti and Fanouris Alexopoulou, a farmer couple in Mires Village.