And a lot of times, farmers are not making all the money from their products because it goes through this chain of shipping and processing and distribution, and there are a lot of middlemen between the farmer and the end user.

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There is a whole other aspect of mobile payments processing, distribution, risk management, and administration that comes with it.

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Britain's Pilkington announced a restructuring that will destroy 6, 000 jobs in its underperforming European operations, 16% of the glass maker's global workforce, and result in the closure of some 60 processing and distribution operations, including a big German plant.

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