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Sugar cane workers make up most of some 20,000 people across Central America who have died of a mysterious kidney disease over the past two decades. A pilot program is delving into why – and testing if small changes in workers' daily practices could yield life-saving benefits and reform a tough industry.
El Caulote, El Salvador — Facing a wall of towering sugar cane in charred shades of yellow, black, and brown, José Luis Rivas Masariego leans down to hack at a few stubborn stalks.
It’s barely 8 a.m. and already the heat is suffocating, his shirt soaked with sweat. Mr. Masariego tosses a few freshly cut shoots of cane onto a pile behind him when the sound of a plastic horn blares out across the fields.
It’s one of the many firsts that Masariego has experienced this cutting season.
In El Salvador s sugar cane fields small changes bring new hope for workers - CSMonitor.com
I wonder what game changes they will make if they get to the end of this road and it is chemicals.
El Caulote, El Salvador — Facing a wall of towering sugar cane in charred shades of yellow, black, and brown, José Luis Rivas Masariego leans down to hack at a few stubborn stalks.
It’s barely 8 a.m. and already the heat is suffocating, his shirt soaked with sweat. Mr. Masariego tosses a few freshly cut shoots of cane onto a pile behind him when the sound of a plastic horn blares out across the fields.
It’s one of the many firsts that Masariego has experienced this cutting season.
In El Salvador s sugar cane fields small changes bring new hope for workers - CSMonitor.com
I wonder what game changes they will make if they get to the end of this road and it is chemicals.