We saw the impoverished regions, but they were not poor because of decoupling, which had not been introduced yet, but because the tobacco industry was not paying growers in those regions a fair price for their tobacco and was even taking advantage of the premiums paid at that time to push prices so low that tobacco-growers were left with nothing at all from their premiums.
Nous avons vu ces régions pauvres, mais elles n’étaient pas pauvres à cause du découplage, qui n’avait pas encore eu lieu, mais parce que l’industrie du tabac ne payant pas aux producteurs de ces régions un prix équitable pour leur tabac.
