Baskets for the Tomatoes
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Tons of tomatoes brought to market in the region each year meant containers were needed: a filmed segment on the factory making the baskets used to carry and sell them.
Written in French by Alain Manset, July 14, 2015. Quotations from period documents are left in the original. Lire l’original en français.
Where there are tomatoes, there must be containers to carry and sell them; the region, which brought tons of tomatoes to market every year, had to have a factory making baskets and containers.
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