Pineapple monoculture in Costa Rica damages enviornment

teleSUR English 2014-10-15

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Costa Rica's pineapples, one of the country's top five export products are famous around the world. Now, as the country is about the start exporting pineapples to China's giant market, local communities affected by water and soil contamination, as well as damage caused to the land by long years of pineapple mono-culture are calling on limiting the crop, imposing higher taxes on growers, and better enforcement of the county's ecological statutes. teleSUR

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