Agrexco's Packing House near Kalia
Corporate Watch paid a visit to Agrexco’s packing house on the land of the illegal settlement of Kibbutz Kalia, on the Northern Coast of the Dead Sea, during April 2010. The packing house is next to fields of date palms. Thai migrant workers could be seen tending to the palms from cherypickers. Inside the packing house herbs were being packed into boxes marked ‘Carmel ECOFRESH: Produce of Kibbutz Kalia, USA’. ECOFRESH is one of Agrexco’s newer brands which is supposed to represent better food quality (see, for example, http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/articles.aspx?page=articles&ID=52941). Workers inside told us that the herbs were being exported to the US.
Agriculture near Kalia
Much of the land near Kalia is designated a 'closed military area'
Date palms near Kalia
Workers tending to date palms near Kalia
Workers tending to date palms
Truck picking up produce from packing house near Kalia
Greenhouses near Kalia
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La cricca della disinformazione | Guerre contro · 26th May 2010 at 11:08 pm
[…] emergerebbe da un sopraluogo fatto, nell’aprile di quest’anno, da una ONG inglese, Corporate Watch, presso l’insediamento illegale di Kibbutz Kalia. In questa colonia, che è situata sulla […]
Photo blog: ‘Organic’ Carmel Agrexco crops grown in the settlement of Kalia | Corporate Watch · 13th February 2013 at 8:03 am
[…] packing house bearing Agrexco signage, which was packaging goods for Agrexco’s ECOFRESH brand in 2010, was operating nearby but was packaging goods for export by other agricultural companies instead of […]