Italy: Why farmers in Puglia have turned to cannabis
In the fields around Taranto, Puglia, more and more farmers are sowing fields of cannabis in a bid to save their precious soil which has been rendered unsafe thanks to years of pollution from Europe's biggest steel plant.
The 15 million square metre Ilva steel plant provides some 14,000 local jobs but the plant has wreaked untold damage on the region by spewing toxic emissions into the air for decades
The emissions have caused severe problems for farmers within a 20km radius of the steel plant who can no longer farm their land. The problem is dioxins: a series of carcinogenic compounds which are released into the atmosphere by heavy industries and then fall to earth, building up in soil.
Things became so bad in 2008 that Puglia's regional government ordered local farmers Vicenzo and Vittorio Fornaro to cull their flock of 600 sheep as sky-high dioxin levels in
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