Media item

Banana harvest

Week number 68-14

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
02:03
Publication date:
1 April 1968
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER681-HRE0000FFF2

Cultivation of bananas at the Jarikaba project in Saramacca. Men carry bunches of bananas to a cableway, from where they're taken to a packaging shed. The bananas are washed in antifungal water and put into boxes. They're taken to the harbour of Paramaribo by lorry.