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bob and are started cultivating jude at the age of 12 in those days due to was an important crop here of the this is what i've done it. the thing jude cultivation became less important. rice was the priority and the focus shifted from ju, just the plastic devices that could be about to change a size. and are you a cons? cultivate or fibers that could make the world a better place? or you've has believed in this possibility ever since his doctor told him that you could be turned into a material that feels and behaves like plastic. but it's environmentally friendly,

easy to add to get along. to not be back. it is invented out by on, by love a c scientist. uh it is a bio di, good to buy a plastic the are you and his uncle, a fast farm, the natural fibre, according to a century. so tradition. could this painstaking process provide the fiber of the future, the northern bangladesh book or district 6 o'clock in the morning and early started to avoid the summer heat. yesterday, temperatures reached 45 degrees celsius a fast, so this due to march. now it's harvest time the what the heavy at the end of the been galley months of to

a true. we so the see that i saw 4 months later in the month of chart. we harvest that how much had, can't we then plant other crops on the same soil, such as over genes or potato? what as they will know, part of the high, on the one hand, they're going to go to of the $5400.00 is equity. there's a lot of, i'll use, dried, jude sticks for many purposes. they bring in the most money and we use them as climbing aids, investable feed volume, or for the walls of houses. today. however, this is becoming obsolete as bricks are used instead of jute, bangladesh as a small country. but it's farmers count among the world's largest, jude producers of foss lives in the village of his lee.

he is one of the wealthier people in the village. his annual income, he says, is the equivalent of 5000 bureaus. the a thoughts has 4 sons. at this time, teddy guy f one is also a farmer and other one is a driver. one is living in malaysia as a migrant worker, and the other is an engineer. i am 75 years old working when i pulled up to the high when i 1st was young. the slogan used to to now plastic

handmade and bangladesh was popular in parts of europe. but if i says he's never heard of it, the in the 1980s, the tooth back from bangladesh became a symbol. that's the environmental movement. back then, it was known as a scratch. you resilient natural material. used to to not plastic was a rallying cry. now the fight against plastic is more urgent than ever. in the village of his lease scrap metal and plastic are collected for recycling. the people are paid and edible, not so they will have to do to eventually replace plastic. who are the people who cultivate the plants? now what role does dude play for them? who have overall, jude cultivation has advantages. we hardly earned anything from rice this year,

but we still grow rice for our own consumption, and we see the rice straw to the cadillac. c the, the price farmers receive for to talk to it's considerably some years proceeds from sales fail to cover production costs. the government is trying to counteract this. i don't think you should probably just take the part specialist with the i'm really, i'm not sure on the market price is high right now and i'm farmers are interested

again and we want to support them by which is for the we is these are located in the current season, our department has provided them with seed and fertilize are free of charge to h was this creates incentive. the farmers have to invest less or more and can make a bigger profit. it gets a number of cds of these tests. what are some of the lot of issues i'm to leave. my name is julie. i'm working as an assistant officer at the department of agriculture extension. i've got to leave broke around. isn't that isn't in the data. okay. yeah. that definitely the fiber feels thick and strong. it will be a good, you know, obviously you're finding foreigners that hold on resist the,

the harvested tooth. stocks are left to lie in the field for 3 days until all the leaves have fallen off. what follows is the unpleasant part the green starks must rot. the you must do. you watch her attracts insects and victoria that are good for the jews and help the for mentation of the plant. but it's bad for human skin and causes itching says a fast today it is bearable and says a fast he's used to it anyway.

other challenges are more daunting. not move on the box. that's what number one. in fact that all could you repeat it? one of the i like round you, especially the dude sticks, they sell very well and don't require much work. i know, but when it's too dry, we have a problem running the green due to sticks in the past, it was easier. we used to do it everywhere in water holes and rivers. there is a river nearby, but now it doesn't have enough water. so now we use puns that are normally used for fish farming and i have a pond close to i. ups, pond. climate change is making every thing harder. extreme weather conditions are disrupting ecosystems throughout south asia says truly and dude, farmers feel the effects for us tend

lots us it. i'm on the see the money to wash much. you says the my ancestors already knew that we have a very low me soil here. just kind of follow a model who married only needs a little reading to retain moisture, mazda, of all the parking lot of on sunday. so i'm going to, did you plan to not survive more than 10 days without rain? world is in for bar s. market. that type of soil is we are here behind the year. it rains fairly reliably, every $15.00 to $30.00 days and summer would get to the bottom. and so our judgment is not damaged. the models, other it'll monthly i wanted to call on like cotton or rice, which need constant water do, does not require artificial irrigation of

foss says that he'd never heard of a biodegradable plastic like material made from 2 until i you've stopped or told him about it he uses a conventional plastic sheet to protect his plants, the ipad? well, i don't, i had not when i put the plastic sheet on top to prevent the mud from getting in and sticking to the fibers. depending on the quality of the fibers, the jude has to soak and water for 12 to 15 days so that it starts to rock. if the

plan was already very ripe, when it was harvested, i can take it out again after just 8 to 10 days, but i thought i'd go to the of the in the youths pond right next door. the jude sticks are almost ready. the, the, the, i see the overtime is the fibers can be removed from the stand by applying light pressure. but this one isn't ready yet. i still have to press to hard it that it will clear. no, it's not think about the kind of set function that i think it will take another 4 or 5 days in his li, are you up, is known as the module farmers. he grows everything from oranges to,

to toyota and his family makes them proud. his daughter tia hopes to go to university in my country, people things, pardon me, use the a, made a team not to the female to do this. and i want to start a study that i live in and abroad. come to the outside of the country. a t o would not want to become a jude farmer even if she could do to them. now the do try me is not, not they have these people, savvy farmers, those kinds of reduce. because the dial me is by my, the jude me is, are all. so they don't to the day of dante any buyers to buy sandy. a do so many people inside of the leave,

the juice and it is the sharp is all scan it is they allow us to do sort of watch too. well, i separate the fibers. this chart is of plan is people out of the us? yeah. oh yes, yes, goodness, and the building, the building, the house. yeah. so construction moves, factories, do used to be very important for bangladesh, says i to yeah, pulling out an old bank note. i bring it because the, the symbols, the symbols, the farmer are god is the farmer of separate fiber from the jews. and the fast corey. they have separate the do. and it is our national groups, you know, so then not has the same symbolize this thing. so i read for you the do this type a color who that is the, that these wash from the borrower that,

that is gold and color golden should show natalie as to evaluate college. so natalie asked, that is golden try that? and it is though it is a, it is only national across because is that we export the other countries and we get to dollars to the car and see the the until the middle of the 20th century june was the world's most important tech style fiber. after cotton, to this day, most of the worlds do production still comes from this region. a louisville soil, a climate that is humid and hot. jude has been harvested in process tier

for centuries. the british colonial rulers took the jude prone here and sold it all over the world. the highest quality fibres have a golden color. these are set to grow best new rivers. that's why many dude farmers live by rivers or in the middle of rivers, an island called chars. the char bye to allies in the middle of the juno river, which originates in the himalayas as the drama put your river. the army notice is a jude farmer. here the

lie, a brother. did you also plant the season? of the no, no, not this year. i'm. i don't, i love life on the island. we bought it, but i live on the mainland because of the glovers and goons. every day i come back here in the morning and believe in the evening. i loved the nature here, our ears, fresh and common love to however, there's so much to do on the island. so many opportunities on the mainland. i have new land and nothing to working with. i river pirates. that's what i mean. what caused the people who attacked and seriously injured his brother that got he shows us the scars from the knife bones. he tells us that the pirates stole his cows,

is it's all over the crime is not the only thing that makes life hard on the chars. legally i've tried that one of our struggle. yeah. as far as the outside of my c id, it must be the rainy season that floods over twice. i go as i so we move the coast to the mainland on the books. we do very well, but for him to run this in 2 or 3 days, everything here is under water. what sorry about that. so it's all over. it was then we came up to the tin roof of the house that i'm i'm lia wooden planks don't. let's have to, so if you, we just and live up there thing get, we're going to shoot, i think it was all over thought that'd be actually if he seems to be volume or the date to get him as take it back. he lots of this is so sort of a landline i mean, north shows how high the watch of reached in recent years. how long i was on charge . even disappeared completely for

a time. $200.00 people live on this river island without electricity or solid ground under their feet. their jude times are resilient to they can withstand flooding for a good 2 weeks. but even the robust do times have their limits. who are the, who do i have the reason why they're hard to believe. i believe i found that you back there what it is totally ruined by the flow if i grew up with the bottom of the head, but couldn't because of the extreme flooding. we couldn't harvest quickly in any way and they died up so i have both in the flood lasted for almost 3 weeks to complete the front of me by the leaves and there by the, by the, that everything was right about the put that there are new fiber

they'll come find me as if i knew i should do the uh, those have the ship though, and the water comes on the plan trimmings under water for too long. oh, really turns black around. no, i then ogden is new. good for more. i got to think of there than what you said. it was the problem is that gives you go by the list of only the golden, shimmering fibers are really worth it. and a thing say about, i'm like, i don't know way possible the, even if the plants are only half submerged with walter, how satisfied the fibers that come out of low quality the, we gets a lower price on the market. because they are discolored, or even black or not as of dollars. why the numbers you i to prevent this dude farmers on the chars have devised a system that, i mean with this proud of leaving the island is not an option. they have nothing on the mainland. the river is both occurs and the last thing that you

plan to watch your noise has been with the minerals but threatens them with much low due by the way i live the river. water isn't murphy, the stream carries on lots of soil and clean the substances stick to the jute fibers, degreed in quality, and causing the due to black and good. however, if the river washers channels into a pond or canal with the water is clear and fresh, i know the cute trimmings and damage plots and retains its golden color. so they have created are just visual canals and water holes. the if i didn't know, do they got the bottle? this is walter that comes from the river by the all the impurities and the must have settled to the bottom of the water hole with the bundle,

by the time while out. so the water is clear, and that's how you can still get the golden color if it's a 5 block, talked about. otherwise, there's no chance of getting good quality fibers are low yet another problem is impacting the by to river island. to low pressure the if there's too much plastic around then harms the crumbs that so we gather its burnett. that solves the problems. are plastic. the 2? no, people want to use less plastic bag, but i just have because we have already in the past batch are made of jute most now we're going back to jude shopping bags, sacks, etc. and people are fed up with plastic type type one of the

200 kilometers downstream. there are people who want to saw the plastic problem with the house of 2 in the capital deca scientists are working on the show nally back project, translating as the gold and back it looks and feels like a plastic bag. but it's made from cellulose, derived from cute if the invention of bangladesh, the scientists, dr. mubarek met con, protective suits and mass have also been produced using this new bio plastic the . the main raw material is dried dude fibers. then we find the setters

because the main ingredient of this one in the back is set arrows definitely made descent loose from chip condition. then we put into the, the extra tang that 3 x, and then we have to set the set up the temperature pressures and time for the poor direction. and then we own the skype. so some of these are the exact formula. it's a secret and says doctor con. so natalie bag has suffered some setbacks. it was just about to go into mass production when the co dependent make it. the sewing bags from this to polymer is also still a problem. the producers don't have access to the right machines using dude for fiber reinforced compass. this has already been proven to work. dr. con has been

experimenting with the material for years. his duty reinforced polymer mixture also has a name to to do things. uh, is your company to commit you. so that is a good for the bottom of this now. and that tons and gentleman in as, as early as in susan and also data making some box with the flex fiber inputs accomplish it to the property of flux is better than to condense some extent. but at flux, the production of flexibility, limited in some countries, and the prices to can support and try to den, that'll do sometimes it's, i just have a good quality plots who's about 10 times higher than the 2. so in that case, duties the partridge and candidate for making the com protect the

i have to have the center says the mind to the destination hot and i want to go there. that is a dissolution. so lastly, i want to say why i'm usually one to why? because juke is really incredible. because he wanted 70 percent centers, you cannot find any t or across in all of the water. we scored 1071 that are some plans, but it's not plenty. it's not comfortable that anybody like to is susan of corruption bundle with dish. so it does the harvesting time. use 110 days on the other. one creek on kentucky, person centers on their bodies. but to dick's getting to good people in yes,

commit to the this is the last the policy so he can see the set on the barney. this are a little bit it's additional like, you know, like to hear. this is the can proceed and you, me did through a battery cable. this is vanessa product. this, this is as it sounds like the perfect fiber.

so why hasn't the environmentally friendly juke revolution happened by now? and what does the government, which commission this finality bad experiments make of this? we ask for homage applewood color at the ministry of textiles into this absolutely noble idea. and the mobile home of counties working on that. you already know any already talked to him, but the, the, somebody should actually, uh, the need to be addressed before waiting for the must production kind of, uh, uh the costing things the other cool thing of course the whole list actually cost that is one issue. um, because people know, get actually plastic bags or anything because been stupid, almost at no cost. so yeah, that is $11.00 issue actually there is a stick completion with the this plus the go to product and best go into some

pretty good product. but the plastic comedy is very, very strong. keep on pipe dealers dollars business every year for the single to us shopping back. so they are not easily allow you to enter the market plastics. an industry that is blocking jude farmers expansion and increasingly jeopardizing their very existence the weekly meeting of the dude farmers of history. 2 of the thousands brothers are also here, states what they tell us that plastic causes a lot of damage to their crops. somebody might have done, but i don't think they've got a or this plastic is very harmful. how the when it burns loved sticky,

dangerous residues remain in the soil due to on the other hand decomposes easily and it fertilizes the soil. plastic takes years to decompose, and when we planned rice, it no longer rose. well, if the soil is boys under a 100 because the high log enough, they would be glad to grow more to and does produce more natural fibers. but conditions have to improve. many people including iops, uncle, hide, are, are unhappy this quote for you can give them number to the fact that that's what we want. we also think about it all the time. cute is really profitable, but we simply don't have any more water holes where we can leave the stocks to rocks. and i mean, it's a real crisis. i got them on the table tight. there are so many things we could do that i knew what i'm next hardwood they might have, but i'm going to bet i'm going to go as i did. i did. it is a hole in love,

but i need to do the struggle. we used to have more of them, but at least they know they were leased by the government to people who are farming fish in the country funding. so cutting them off is near enough to low to plan on well charge you their commercial going thinking sure to, to run it must talk, sought out wherever there is water, a box, dishes canals it is. it was a lot to know they are all use for fish farm and ready to go to is i got the the, our hands are tied on while you're doing that is that it must natasha who didn't make to go to. and that's why they have created their own artificial ponds. these experienced farmers make the hard work look easy, having rubbed, mineral oil on his body before getting into the sinking water to relieve the itching i loosened institute fibers by hitting the stems the

less. and this is how you waiting to talk lots of course to go to lou will got a big deal in addition, that on started, i'm gonna also, it was a cultivation process as tyran shoot has many benefit. when it is young, we can each, once you've extracted the fibers, we make the money from it. they lose it, right? you sticks us, fire, we're done with agility developed. this makes up for the hard labor costs through allowance, even though just cultivation is painful when it brings us lots of benefits back on

whether it will kind of like when to is still very young. it's leaves are used in cooking and are very healthy. are you ps, wife alo, says, so now she would talk, show these a green vegetables are full of vitamins healthy i mean i just gently as ensure that we build up our immune system in the the the part that some of them have good. what about the think if i be what the,

what am i gonna love? hello. well, no, no punch on the vehicle to the high 5 se tips, photos, jute has changed our luck since it's currently being sold. it's a good market price. i see the breakdown and costs less to produce compared with other products for the initiative on marketing. and we can recover the production expenses by selling the dried stock. so low that one box. will it the next to to be shut up that gosh. so if i produce in the field, so because i can earn 2 and a half times more than what i would earn with rice is for going to do nama the co author. that's why you cultivation is a profitable crop for us. farmers on it the the,

it takes 3 days for the 2 bundles to try and this on a you been a fast then sell them to wholesalers who picked them up directly in his late the to sell there too. too many farmers travel to the small town i've shown that toilet. it's one of the largest due to markets in the region. the highest price for a killer to today is a t tucker. they say, that's about 3 quarters of a dollar. 6677, count slowly. wholesalers buy to then deliver it to the mills or a boss. what about the hey we have to make 5 kilo's less. there are 3 categories of june. first,

the 2nd and 3rd rate quality that determines the price i pay. i buy a good quality duty at a high price a medium level model. i mean, this is medium quality by giving me the good one. and then look at that as low quality a high quality here 1st class, the best a defense type. everything was okay or does it have night over vertically, a clean, soft, smooth, vertically at other than these think this one is rough, very different. it's from the floods. well no, i don't know if i knew that we're not able to go north of the wholesalers off from the store that you'd in warehouse. it's in order to increase

demand from the mills and those drive up the price. in recent years, the government has closed down several jude mounts, which were said to be unprofitable. tens of thousands were left unemployed. there are plans to modernize the industry according to the ministry, to the privately owned house on ali, to smell and book laura sources due from all over the country and produces it in 3 ships. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. the, the conditions are bad. the temperatures colors the

from the fibers present to the body, the exports go to india. the neighboring country is the world's largest producer of 2, but they still need imports to supplement their own harvest. products include 2nd, delicate textiles and sometimes called the

natural tooth. fabrics may not be very soft, but they are beautiful and highly freeze of the production manager mohammed drum and tells us what the material was already being used in the 18th century, in germany, in the region of present day has been one of the died of money pick a would put the will actually, the so called haitian goes back to germany. square soldiers uniforms, used to be made of jude out of money to say this was then adopted by the british army or we will shut the issue that there. and they then called a fabric ocean. how can you see that the money hit cnn push out late. i've tried to go to the

over $800.00 companies in bangladesh, now manufactured to products. and that number is growing. the more awareness of due to environmental sustainability could be created worldwide, global interests, which really help save that his li, farmers separately. that's our germany, is one of the pioneers in the industrial revolution before getting off. if they

were to import truth from our country, from cosign deals with a governmental to go to the water, we could produce more of the golden fiber and supply it. i mean, even though she forgot to come to nice buyers to harvest more and it back to and a lot of farmers would come forward, cultivate you to try to get us updated access to fill out the water out loud though we do the main challenge. i think is the price fluctuation, there is no certainty compelling. if the government put a system in place to guarantee that it would by the to, to not as it already does with rice have to do then i think this would mitigate the risk of being charged for the conduct of it did. they did show government done, conduct the back of it, the only issue saelens ticket this device will use to to not plastic. make a come back. the history farmers hope so. so but it's up to others to make it happen. until then, a fast will continue farming as best he can today

he finds himself at the market in the evening and that one part of the things you want when i get a good harvest and earn a good amount of money, i buy suites for the children at home, i say to myself, eat more, don't think about money today. we're not pushing. the harvest that brings in the most money makes me the happiest, whatever. when i sell my harvest at the market, i forget all the hard work. it motivates me to keep working and then i'm even happy . i don't work or model the, the

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