Kuru, you're a good ELAM boy, why don't you pick on something productive...
Tomatoes are rotting in the Caujeri Valley, a man tells me, which has had a good harvest this year, with a yield that doubles what was expected and has a modern factory to process them but, right now, its productive capacity isn’t enough to deal with all of the tomatoes that are coming in from the fields.
People have been watching tomato plants full of red fruits for two weeks now and are praying that it doesn’t rain and that mold overtakes them, rotting everything that touches the wet ground, but the skies aren’t listening.
Revealing their foresight, some people have picked the fruit and put them into boxes covered by banana leaves and put them out next to the highway. However, they aren’t sure they will escape the rotting that already lingers in the air in some places.
The man’s family, his mother, father and brother, estimate that if things continue on as they are, they will lose thousands of pounds of good tomatoes; which is ground at the Caujeri Vallery Canning Factory to make aseptic tomato paste which is then sent to other provinces, where they produce end products.
Before they all rot, farmers and people who hear these stories ask why the fruit isn’t being taken to other places, because if they can’t be ground to make paste, they can be used to make sweets, for direct consumption. However the bureaucrat’s decisions aren’t always the most fair or reasonable.