With access to the capital necessary to expand production and improve the quality and technology of their products, Liugong and Lonking, as well as the other major wheel loader manufacturers, will only get bigger and stronger.

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Our experience is that producers use their additional income from Fairtrade to improve their homes, send their children to school and improve the quality of their existing crop, rather than to increase production.

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