Skip to main content

tv   Mobile Harvest  Al Jazeera  January 8, 2020 1:32am-2:01am +03

1:32 am
just admit my composure said the kassam so the money was in baghdad the plan further attacks that he said could lead to the death of many more americans he told reporters at a press conference that if iran made any bad choices president trump would respond in a decisive manner meanwhile u.s. defense secretary mark esper says this country is not looking for a war with iran and insists that iran needed to deescalate the situation to enable a diplomatic solution he also said that there were no plans for american troops to leave iraq despite confusion over a letter received by the iraqi government suggesting forces were to be evacuated. those are the top stories stay with us life apps a mobile harvest is next with an app that could transform the life of india's poorest farmers more news at half an hour away. taiwan's president seeks a 2nd time facing concrete you know advocates restoring closer ties with china will
1:33 am
this election move beyond in closer to the mainland who continue to resist beijing's push the unification taiwan's 20 trying to presidential election on al-jazeera. it's a mobile world. which calls texts. to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting. chan mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world this series challenges app developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help with being a life. this week life apps is in india
1:34 am
a country at the forefront of the id revolution and which has the world's 3rd largest smartphone market but one in 4 people contrary to all right. lives in delhi the capital of india he works in the secret site of india's high tech boom. he has a double lost as in computer. cryptography making computers safe from hacking. he also believes in using digital technology to help the less fortunate india has over a 1000000000 mobile. i believe children we began with while technology use evolution for many offered. my questions to find on so's to help people who were living at the bottom of the economic bit of. such and belongs to
1:35 am
a collective called mix all they use technology to help underprivileged communities . one of their ambitions is to help india's beleaguered small scale farmers. have anything to make you know not remembering. the challenge for such an is to design and life. a mobile phone app to help bring farmers a better life. in the local cafe such and his mix all colleagues brainstorm some early ideas for. your favorite the sad stories from you know farmers who are saved and all that so there is definitely some problem on the ground which they're facing and my in benjamin not to push any technology to them but my intention is to look for a solution you know which this technology can bring because this is ubiquitous and
1:36 am
something which is very cheap in india why dear will any available at a very cheap and affordable places if there is something you think from a problem point of view which we can address something that could be done is going to like. that is you know sort of been known we can deal with hard to get to that information i can give this this is the time it is going to be and we have to start thinking and maybe of fear to visit is something which is much more needed to validate our thoughts. and. such and starts by setting up a facebook page to help research found these problems. particularly interesting leads come from the huge southern state of undress president bush. so such an fly south to state capital hyderabad. it's the start of the 2000
1:37 am
kilometer journey deep into rural india. just landed there were there for hoping i really cared enough insights meeting those people on the ground what are the problems farmers are facing and what does that i.c.t. mobile technology can do for such an wants to hear small scale spawn the stories 1st hand so we can find ways an app can help in under pradesh 7. not to fall miss depend on seasonal rains decent rainfall can mean a bountiful harvest but weather patterns and climate change can mean rains a late fall fail altogether. plan this out and close. the. local guy privy in
1:38 am
visit mr naidu who runs the community managed sustainable agriculture project. in the 4000 villages. and all that. we would have. been for us one he said there. laying. there want to. know. when you are. going anywhere near going to. well. i mean when was the last may do great in agriculture my. imagination you know when i was sitting in there lee
1:39 am
was very different and the good it all can do you know it does already a big changed you know the studio day about the woman so i such an wants to meet farm it's like b.j. are the women who lost 3 family members the visiting team won 2 very enthusiastic good team has come to mean yeah what are so tomorrow they will both said i will because you are the. 2 hours from hyderabad is cutting nagas vigil his home village. to deal with the damage and the enzyme that he had learned to. live eternally in my lower back pain and they. demand virtually clean my london little my little did he call and that. little day with them and they went out on monday and so. though
1:40 am
something so government is a put up by husband money grubber the mother. and they screw them up operable in emberton in the eligibility election. that i will go both so that i would. guess. those are far more than as i've learned little of all of this argument big. engenders mystery party. $3638.00 model will be ok. s r i farming stands for system of rice intensification planting young speccing white so the multi crops is the growing of several kinds of crops. these new ideas saved which i. read your story is remarkable despite all the hardships years going through years being able to get control of your life. i want to see this all your
1:41 am
while to grow farming to model that does remember to help her and other farmers turn around their lives. turned her farm around by using new methods her family had never heard about. such and thinking that stories like this should be heard by a much wider audience. the next day sachin had steep into under up a danish to monday karma. this is a. protected samuel's troubles include expensive fertilizes low crop prices and drought. some real story also has a positive twist he's found hope in organic farming in the land famous for its green revolution with its emphasis on fertilizers and manmade chemicals samuel's taken advice to far more naturally. worms and insects keep the soil healthy and
1:42 am
local organic matter feeds his crops over time it really is that you are you are. all your friends and. are that yesterday when. they are very good remember that. if. your eyes are going to love me. you're mean without a body. yeah that pretty. much if we set it up right raise elian password you would have a bad day gary sick to my jeep them i didn't. i'm good because they were good challenge. such an has discovered how farmers have improvised to deal with their problems.
1:43 am
or does expect her to fix. some of those neighbors not i am not a sama sama narrow strip of land. with some house help there realign not only on organic farming but on multi cooks planting several crops not just one like rice it's a blend of traditional farming wisdom and modern scientific knowledge like you just didn't come around me or years we've got a car if you got your liver would you care about it and if you can archive. which. j.c. king very. tired i am very good god just regular people take a q.b. very young give a cuba i know you cannot find out that i am not to got very far apart you got very american to get your barbaric we name only way. you know really how do you manage being without function we are trying to remain in go out and say something to me
1:44 am
and i knew. it. would be. good. business. now and his neighbors now grow several crops all year round. not just the standard old rice crock they have more than doubled their income an extra $2.00 a day each more. the message such as picking up here and drop a dish is that some small scale farmers are coming up with fresh ideas and initiatives. too often other farmers just don't hear about them but there are people trying to change that. some touches with a c. and a women self-help group. she runs that organic pest control store. she
1:45 am
spreads the word using very basic technology. she's using a pictorial way of helping villages remember new farming ideas. yet i don't have. the among the young folks setting like eric bana there to guide them and to tell me it's not a full faith that will cross out of my thumb obviously there are a lot of money. and a lot of the fun of what we're trying to prove that she said quietly such personal interest i want to ask her if she is given a form. she can pay me for all those 40 have been telling us say do most of the boys you know are going to be happy of all good because she has better knowledge of you know the confidence and one of the modern drummer run a new go gross and foreign law for get to know you start there with him on a reform the modern art of them is a response i want tried opposition and government are these stood on top on
1:46 am
a model out of them $100.00 or one them on the rail on monday q 4 that are not going to so much on a hardline rule under memory stunned. by the monday. monday we did with w o sanguine in general she's saying yes every verbal storytelling is part of the cultural landscape of india so such a needs to know if santos shall. would be happy using text. to form water or no modifier down decreased or part of valor were dismissed upon but i'm just a part of the on going in model of bank you supported from both sun kind of going up we're going to speak. a little we want to do something for them you want to bring something for them when i come home again yeah and sure what bank and we're. going to foster a little star. thing on things. such
1:47 am
as heading back to hyderabad to assess everything he's learned it's becoming clear that a mobile phone app could help if you collect and disseminate stories of better farming practices like those he's been hearing about here in under pradesh i see you know all those mobile application which we are thinking of could really do something of him back if you could back is their stories in a way that they do not struggle you know in learning technology instead you know being what they are good act which is you know telling their own case studies in the way they are comfortable with. such an wants to play to the farm the strengths of storytelling in state capital hyderabad stories travel fast people cross-pollinate ideas and experiences could form
1:48 am
a share ideas in the same way for inspiration such as calling on the honey bee network. for 25 years honey bee has been gathering up ideas and inventions from farmers entrepreneurs and scholars across the world. to know. they help with peyton's funding and spreading ideas on the internet so such as calling on the networks brigade the nation to see how honeybee works in under a pradesh. with a real pleasure sitting here because i have read a lot about i mean it was there is tremendous hidden knowledge in the villages are the grass roots level and they have the ability to solve their problems to great extent and that's because they have a harmony with the nature solution identified by a farmer for his own problem he required them when he says farmers in this country
1:49 am
more than the board. now all of them are not so blissed like this farmer who fall is probably right but if they get this technology this innovation the order to defeat all of them millions of them will slightly go at no cost. i'm so excited today after meeting together going to. do stories of farmers and really innovators as strongly as ing that i'm dying to meet them tomorrow. so such as of to meet one of the farmers turned inventor whose ideas honeybee is backing off to a 9 hour drive he meets side that button. with electricity as sporadic as the range power for irrigating farms is vital. ciders on his $400.00 windmill.
1:50 am
model a passport and i. like that he had no. problems at all that had that. body sniper in them that when i got here my car was because i. was not really nervous and they're not that i'm a muslim i really remember an idea when you go explode from the attic idea. that one of them. your dad actually. will progress. first school i want to go you have back so to go away or to. see other they were danish and like i don't mind if they were danish unlikely saudia by going to. the. nearby in charge past women with
1:51 am
beautiful. but. in this family of farmers and. so to help he invented the awesome machine he wanted to save women weave is the tedium and pain of repeating a single motion 9000 times a day just to make one sorry. for you find very fine when i open a much more novel can keep going to come there thank you for the plane the men are pretty much gone here's canano that oughta amika on your own talent has to have been a minimal kind of cool army prepared i'm taliban deep in the fun of all those hundreds of moon you also where the more you know the. pretty cool tree but they were told of the how the also were done to you than a long monotone mongrel fun just to learn to bundle no one you give 100 not given them to the accordion into all of us he didn't share nicky and not astonishing them
1:52 am
. such is not travelled over 2000 kilometers learning about the innovative ways india's funds are improving their own lights he's convinced mobile phones can help people share ideas so everyone can benefit. so 2 of my big buddies you know where the people will have will be told and connectivity so that is already there whether they can afford the mobile phone that is already there what does not there is a very simple and intuitive solution for them so that they can use these gadgets to tell their stories share their questions. doubts anything then they are stuck. back in daily such in steam work with one. who've offered to
1:53 am
help build his story sharing life. we can close a small buy the last. time problems off his farm was so cool to see. a picture and then click on it the idea that settling on is to use pictures and voice recordings instead of text so called reconned you know the bus system which is full bottles they can chip in them and they can. and you know when. they come up with a working model the more bottle harvest up it's an app that helps farm
1:54 am
as chest stories and ideas can be developed into a fully fledged smartphone app. well i wanted those for you those application men. with a beige book follows in india so with the help of a few legs i may be able to do this and was already you know good we created from a weak moment of the been. moved. back in under a pradesh suchan wants to field test his mobile harvest up. santosh. many do system but a good man i am fairly. well bought. was killed by the women in billy's out good system with us. also. you got to step one the user
1:55 am
logs into the mobile harvest up his system make a school that's getting a lot of thinking. they. will make better go step to record the idea. only got i got told that it wasn't a. child getting a lot of weapons a good mouthful of cuba that a god could gaze really close and i could be sick of them. you're going to. give me . step 3 select this you to bill image. step for all share your idea with the whole community via the app. that i got in there so you know was it a language when they don't cook advocate or. just. the
1:56 am
langage homey. this is that he gets a. chance to meet up so not so. well but just i'm. august so off either hoboken me any meal you want to nearest of said not visible in the name of school children out of the chip on to me you know it's not really a chip in the family we're not gonna let the talent money in mississippi add to that iran cannot tip the money to book a book good i didn't can not even look like you but i meant a lot of it been done then. so what does organic promise make of such in small ball harvest up down. your god was it one going to go. quite that it does not it took it did a beautiful same turn it is obvious that it yeah they put it with such and such
1:57 am
like that using sound images you don't have to be fully literate to use it so what does mr ray do who helped plan such as jenny think of the prototype i pleasure of having a lot of this valuable input from you i got it it was in your own population and i like it i think it was a very exciting opportunity and i hope that you're going to launch a pilot with us then i can give you a bit of feedback up for we got to the point now that i've shown the obvious and good to 6 people and they're all in the present different stakeholders so right now i am very happy with the world which has happened for the feedback. and there's a lot of detailed feedback which i've got. on video i want to work on so from here i want to develop this obligation make it more robust and they get through the file it's called science and make it something you know it can be adopted nation like.
1:58 am
so long way to go it's just the beginning of the project. violence is power. cools it's the political wild card the town symmetry shapes world order the structure that is defended but will cost. the edge with the support of the people fall through the crushing of there will be. people in power exposes the use and abuse of power around the world. on al-jazeera. 3 years off to cholera was discovered in haiti this is just one example of how the death toll from this epidemic could be much higher than anyone knowns and al jazeera investigation into who should be held responsible travel to the united nations headquarters in new york. we saw to the
1:59 am
secretary general weekend in this room i'm going to try to catch my 1000 but has justice now been served for the victims freewinds haiti in a time of cholera on al jazeera. if you want to learn but that was might look like very soon we got hungry and hungry as in the stream example of the president and the whole world is going through. so this mass immigration story we had gone clashes between the cultures and the problems that the culture of that is you are should say some grading to us is or is not comfortable with european culture this is not like good fascist. triumphal march. dreams of conquest and of global try. this is very very uneventful kulai towards the precipice without resistance we are tossed the danger
2:00 am
has already happened. it was then just 10 years ago. now this is it. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news our live from our headquarters here in coming up in the next 60 minutes if iran does anything that they shouldn't be doing they're going to be suffering the consequences and very strongly the u.s. president donald trump defends the killing of the iranian military chief and is using a new warning over and it was telling. more than 50 mourners die in a stampede.

37 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on