Sandokan by Nanni Balestrini

Author:Nanni Balestrini [Balestrini, Nanni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-407-3
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

IX THE FRUIT DUMP

during the summer months I help my father I work in the orchard and during these two or three months of summer I spend fifteen or twenty days at the fruit dump I drive my father’s tractor to the collection centers the so called fruit dumps that the AIMA the Azienda di Stato per gli Interventi nel Mercato Agricolo the national farm support agency sets up in farming districts where there is an excess of production that might drive down prices in that case they have to destroy part of the harvest to keep prices from dropping the fruit dump is a foul smelling place baking in the July and August sun it’s a parcel of land where they excavate a huge pit and next to it they install a truck scale so that vehicles can drive over it and be weighed there’s a little office next to it and there’s a chain link fence around the dump outside the fence there’s a long line of tractors pulling trailers loaded with fruit waiting their turn to drive in be weighed and dump their loads then they’re given a receipt showing the weight of the load which they submit to the AIMA which will in turn reimburse the farmers the fruit is tipped into the pit in the middle of the parcel of land until the pit is full then they dig another pit next to it until they have dumped the maximum volume of material that each fruit dump can accept because a maximum quantity is assigned to each fruit pit

the responsibility for running these fruit dumps these collection centers belongs to the growers’ cooperatives because the AIMA just provides the funding after that the government turns over the work to the growers’ cooperatives and oversight is ensured by the fact that in these collection centersthere are always a great number of policemen and treasury agents the clan realizes that it can make a lot of money from this operation and so they infiltrate the cooperatives and even create some new ones of their own by recruiting three or four farmers who might have only the tiniest patches of land so they put together this cooperative with a general manager and a secretary and everything according to regulation and then these cooperatives submit a request to the AIMA for permission to set up a collection center where the members of the cooperative can go as well as other farmers who can be passed off as members of the cooperative or else who might dump fruit in the name of cooperative members and then the members will collect reimbursements from the AIMA with their receipts showing the amount of fruit that they dumped and which was weighed it’s good money it’s European money because it’s underwritten by the European community it’s a sure thing it’s safe money

this is how the clan defrauds the fruit dump at first it uses the tractors of its member growers to dump real

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