Centuries ago, farmers on the slopes of Indonesia's Mount Gamalama volcano defied colonial orders to stop clove production, hiding their crops from the Dutch. Now, production of the aromatic spice faces a new challenge. The region's once-favourable climate kept the crop alive, providing the specific conditions needed to harvest, but with climate change bringing heavier, more destructive rains, clove farmers livelihoods are under threat.
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00:00If it's cold, wait until it's cold.
00:29There are some hancur, there are some, it is empty.
00:33In the past, it's good for the heat.
00:39But now, there are some hancur and green,
00:43it's not hot so much green.
00:47When it's too cold,
00:49the corn will change into the corn.
00:52So, the produce will come too.
00:54In the rain, it will be decreased.
00:57The corn will be replaced with all of the corn,
00:59So the production of the plant will be very little, maybe 20-30% of the result.
01:29If we want to figure out, we are really worried about planting cengki.
01:37So, sometimes the farmers are lazy to plant,
01:42because it was a large amount of money, and then the result was just a little.
01:48In history and history, we had to protect the cengki in the world,
01:58which they planted in the trees and so on,
02:05so that it became a proud of the children in the future.
02:11As a result of the plant, we had to protect the cengki in the world.
02:26to hold on to the metal metal metal.
02:31When metal metal metal is destroyed,
02:35there is an idea that is extractivism,
02:38where the metal metal is the one that is then
02:41an energy that is the one that is sent to the metal metal.
02:44Then they leave the metal metal metal metal metal metal.
02:46It is also back to metal metal metal metal metal metal metal metal.
02:51And it is not that that is a result.