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Dr. Lebot talking about kava in Bislama?

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verticity

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From picking out words here and there it sounds like he's saying something to the effect of: kava is in demand in new caledonia, america and germany...kava isn't dangerous if you drink good traditional kava...kava plantations are at the mercy of cyclones...el nino creates drought that effects the crop...supply is short, prices have gone up....even the price of a single nakamal shell has gone up....there are parts of other vanuatu islands that grow a lot of kava, like santo, malekula etc...but not much planting on efate where the most nakamals are so they're having a hard time finding enough kava...Noumea(new caledonia) has 300 kava bars that need kava, the US has kava bars in florida, oregon & california that need kava, and if you look at the internet one bag of dry kava costs at least 45 $, so everyone is having a problem...to protect from disasters, farmers need to plant more kava gardens among certain trees, like bread fruit or mango, so if a cyclone comes, more plants are safe.
 
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kastom_lif

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Ba mi lukim ya mo traem translate... it looks like Tok Pisin, but here's an attempt.

A Kava Scientist in Vanuatu says Kava price rise now is causing big worry for farmers in the Pacific and also for their culture.

Dr. Vincent Lebot of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development gave this talk after reports about kava prices trending very high in the Pacific, and also in the world.

He said, something is causing the price to grow very much for kava in Vanuatu and Fiji after tropical cyclones such as Cyclone Winston which hammered Fiji in 2016 and Cyclone Pam which wrecked Vanuatu in 2015.

Dr Lebot also says that lots of people in America, and Europe are starting to use Kava, but supplu is short, so prices are rising.

Pacific people can use kava for ceremonies and also for when they observe kastom activities in their communities.
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The audio's neat. Dr. Lebot speaks in Bislama and the Radio Aus interviewer sticks to Tok Pisin. They seem to manage just fine though.

There are lots of kava bars in Noumea in New Caledonia. There are lots of kava bars opening now in America. In Germany they lost the case in court that claimed kava was a dangerous substance. We all know that kava is a healthy traditional drink in the South Pacific. Now there are are lots of people working (earning money) who want to buy kava. They're damanding. There's a big market for them. Cyclones Winston and Pam damaged a lot of gardens.

(And I'm going to take a break cause the interview keeps going and going... It basically follows the text summary though)

Oh here is a gem...

"If you want to increase kava production, don't increase the size of your garden. No. Increase the NUMBER of gardens. Plant kava underneath big trees for protection from drought and cyclones."
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kastom_lif

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verticity said:
They are probably similar enough to be mutually intelligible
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Hmmm, yes with the right choice of words. There are enough colloquialisms to make things difficult. I have to assume that the reporter and Dr. Lebot tried to meet in the middle.

Whether you ask "bilong wanem kava i dia?" or "from wanem kava i sas?", I hope the article and interview made sense.
 
verticity

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kastom_lif said:
Hmmm, yes with the right choice of words. There are enough colloquialisms to make things difficult. I have to assume that the reporter and Dr. Lebot tried to meet in the middle.

Whether you ask "bilong wanem kava i dia?" or "from wanem kava i sas?", I hope the article and interview made sense.
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Yeah, maybe it helps if you have traveled around in the region, like Dr. Lebot has, and the interviewer probably has also.
 
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