hello welcome this is eco india a sustainability magazine show which drains the spotlight on solutions that are taking us closer to a greener tomorrow by twenty fifty the population of the world is set to cross nine point seven billion in this context how do we ensure food security for the millions of people who go hungry every day how do we promise economic opportunity to those who bring food to work tables all while making sure our systems are environmentally sustainable that's our focus to be some of that rubble coming to you from mumbai in india over the next thirty minutes how hyperloop a farm in mumbai is producing dreams for the crowded city of robots who turn around farming as we know which to be and how traditional camel herders evolve just on our coping with the changing times first let's look at some basics traditionally farm

produce in india has traveled from handload to hand you know across various levels before reaching the consumer and it's estimated that twenty five percent of this is damaged along the wheat from the field to the plate a hyper local urban farming mumbai is trying to change this by creating a sustainable model of farming where the city's residents have access to freshly harvested produce the what directly to their doorstep. it's. located in the heart of the bustling unheated suburb this ramshackle old industrial building gives little to the unsuspecting passer by. but walk in and you'll discover the city. has forced ever

a climate controlled hyper local farm. this space is a farm for a range of fresh leafy vegetables growing smack in the middle of mumbai. people farms started in two thousand and seventeen as an experiment on a terrace it was the brainchild of seche. and joshua lewis born out of the duo's single minded commitment to making people more mindful of what was on their plates we felt like we missed a sense of purpose we felt like you know we were not adding enough to the community around us in mumbai we decided we had to make a trip to a place that very much unlike mumbai and that was all over over there we decided we'd start working at a farm because that would help us understand food which was the one thing that we put into our body every day and it was something that we needed to reconnect with and rebuild

a relationship with or thinking about bombay we realise that you know there's a need for fresh food there's a need for local food and there's a need for clean for. hydroponic farming uses form and other materials as substrate for the plants. this soil is replaced by water a matter taught to hark back to the asterix civilization of central america will be will farms how this more than two thousand plants every month. an impressive range that includes leafy greens like swiss chard lettuce kill and rocket popes as well as edible flowers. you know as well hydroponics is beneficial

in the same amount of space you can grow almost ten times the amount because you can go over to and because of the closed loop water systems that are used to it you can use up to ninety percent less water and there's the added advantage that you don't have to use pesticides when you're growing indoors also if you can grow these closer to people's homes you have less carbon miles you can deliver fresh food. in a radical departure from the traditional markets work that is to offer customers a completely transparent supply chain from production to delivery so they can trust the hygiene and nutritional value on what goes on their plate when you want to draw

food you have to make sure that. because you've got to make sure that the food is communion need to norway your food is coming from and. in local markets in mumbai this is not possible. for all the many advantages of hydroponic farming the energy cost for lighting farms and regulations. and that affects the price but. be strong. each morning the fresh harvest is then delivered to the customers to ensure freshness and nutrition. what started out as free samples for potential customers back in two thousand and seventeen is today a thriving business with the reading list of four hundred potential subscribers.

a monthly subscription with farms costs about twenty one dollars. this includes four harvest boxes each carrying two fifty to three hundred grams of leafy greens it's expensive and only really an option for people with medium or high incomes. people think there's this massive cost difference when you buy from. so much more sense because . i like that about it because if i just seen a couple of salads through the week i know that i'm getting. value that i wouldn't be getting if i was eating regular. hydroponic farming has the potential to be a model for the future especially when it comes to feeding the world's. population .

when you eat well you feel it is only when you start feeling well are you able to impact people around you and have more meaningful relationships with them this is what life is about for us and we feel that the world needs a lot more. joshua have gone commercial with their model of sustainable farming but there are so many options available to the poor who could be in your backyard and this not only makes sure the to norway or for this coming from but also helps improve the climate and biodiversity a project in berlin has been paving the way for ten years now because. fresh peppermint. and edible flowers. to him a peach cafe specializes in vague include xen and most of the ingredients come

straight from the garden this is one of many urban gardening projects in germany growing food in the city has been a popular trend for some time in berlin for example it's brought new life to several neighborhoods. this it was a chance. i want to see empty areas put to good ecological use. we want to show people where their food actually comes from here and we also want to show them how this kind of gardening works. this kind of activity brings people together imitate is one of the most recent urban gardening project in berlin. another project in a birla neighborhood the princess and garden dates back to two thousand and nine back then hundreds of volunteers cleaned up of a concise and set up plant crates. urban gardens i now find around the world

the princess and garden features more than five hundred right he's a vegetable oils but there's more to it than just growing progeny used. to. try out new things here. cities are so organized and disciplined that they ought to have open spaces where people can work on projects like this mentioned urban gardens have a real role to play in the open space and shouldn't just be sawn off for the whole thing as all urban gardens should be part of every city. is there to tarry in dishes served in the cafe for all featuring the police source increasing. i grew cultured in india is deeply affected by extreme bad divisions temperature of ice and moving forward constantly causing body performers in the country a program commissioned by the german government between innovation centers helping

farmers plan better working in the states of maharashtra could not decline on the provision the program guides farmers in the improvement of seeds quality and the use of machine that he and dick knology could future proof they produce. harvesting potatoes is back breaking work even when you have oxen to help turn over the soil the women still have to do the collecting lakshmi gallagher and his family live in one of our a in southwestern india work in the taito field has become far easier since they started using a harvesting machine. from i learned how to farm from my father and he learned it from his father. i could not live with this machine we can finish our work much faster than with an ox what's more the potatoes are already pretty clean when they come out of the soil mechanization proper cultivation practices are

giving us much better yields. the. german development agency g.i. said runs a green innovation center in india among its tasks is bringing together farmers an agricultural machinery makers. to go in front of farmers have small fields in india and big machines with a big turning radius don't make any sense so together with the farmers and private companies we try out machines that are more suitable the aim is to make the work for farmers easier and more productive so at the end of the day with a good plot of good power the farmer will have more potatoes than with the traditional ox oxen from. india is the world's second biggest potato producer after china a lot of india's produce roots before it can be sold the un estimates that india loses forty percent of its harvest due to insufficient infrastructure. i have

someone one of the people behind a solution backed by the g.i. said he runs a cold storage facility for seed potatoes near puna. what justice is the first cold storage in the area it has a modern cooling system that allows us to have constant temperatures on every floor for farmers tell me that the quality of the seed potatoes is much better so i'm very happy about that either the. fast food ever ready grows tomatoes he goes to great lengths to protect his precious seedlings from pest launch trays now give the plant small space for their roots to develop today he's able to sell his entire childhood in the old days it was just hard. not to go to the farmers are spreading the word that you can buy good seedlings from us. they also give us good feedback about the crop growth of our quality

seedlings are still robert going to grow them in the modern example barlinnie. from greenhouses to potato harvesting machines and cooling facilities technology is being used to benefit consumers in farmers' align the indian government has set a target for farmers to double their incomes between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty two. now in addition to adapting to the changing climate farmers may have to come face to face with a new kind of change in how agriculture is practiced robots are being developed or formed just about every activity in the farming process how could this impact the beer to be processes and walking farmers to be heard let's find out. who wants growing here we need or carrots. here in this field

a prototype is being tested the hope is that this technology will be able to combat weans and improve harvests. meet a robot that works for organic farmer trying to carstens. recovered a fifth of life or become a visionary in this operation because i'm trying to foresee the problems we'll have in a decade and i'm doing my best to solve them true for. the farmers already having problems finding enough employees to work his fields bonnie rob could solve this labor shortage by recognizing weeds and destroying them without reline chemicals but the robot is still at the learning stage or the farmer has brought in i.t. experts to help bonnie robb has to be able to identify which plants are wanted and which ones aren't forced or if. you can imagine drawing a picture with a green marker and a red marker and then we tell him that's a carrot and those are weeds and later we have pictures without anything and we

tell the robot to find out where would you use the color red or grey doesn't and this is what you see in the end it examines all the images and says you're away it was. artificial intelligence for farming. nowadays farmers also have to be engineers and software experts able to hook up heavy duty farm machinery to networks those networks collect and analyze data so farmers can pop to my eyes the use of seeds and fertilizer it's providing a new line of business for agricultural machinery engineers. even for listening and someday we'll have to feed nine or ten billion people and that won't be possible with curry eels we have to become more efficient and we have to use our resources more wisely. research and practice are closely interlinked fuel efficiency tests for example are being conducted at the farm where kayaker himself learned his trade

. this heavy machinery is connected to a network wherever possible with the help of the internet drivers must understand ever more challenging technology. that's. the route i have just programmed to fit into the track to follows that route there's no need to steer satellite maps help the machinery stay exactly on course but it also makes it possible to track and influence every move and spot every mistake digital technology is very useful for looking after the livestock to helping to boost profits feeding has long been automated banco says farmer should still visit their animals at least once a day. but does every farmer actually do that if a computer is able to stop the feeding machine autonomous lead. to. reopen

. we currently have two thousand or so feeding them by hand as inconceivable it's good to have fully automated feeding. for a lot of marketers find food. back at the carrot field the vegetable crop is being separated from the weeds by hand at least it's environmentally friendly the vehicle as we know it by solar panels but it's difficult to find workers willing to pull up weeds for eight hours when will this work be automated the organic farmer was hoping for speedy a progress. we know that in the long term we won't have these workers anymore so we need the technology to help keep the weeds on our fields in check most of them are growth to grow but there's a big demand for big visions. farming can benefit greatly from digitalisation.

home our dream is to come here with a small trailer open the door and then one hundred drones fly out and around the field and everything automatically. so when will drones take on the difficult tasks how will farm jobs change and how many will remain what will digitalisation mean for food production and livestock farming. everything depends on the new technological possibilities and how we exploit them. the reich a community the state of this part is already feeling the effects of moss making a zation of agriculture known to be traditional camel herders this struggling to react khalil's profitably for their milk and for they were activists the new generation doesn't seem to want to continue in the steps of the field as in the hope for lucrative jobs in the city how is the community coming to terms with this

small but certain shift that's taken the. birth. her to the right her people have been hurting camels here in registration for centuries reich a tradition holds that lord shiva created a caste specifically so they could look after camels but times have changed that traditional way of life is now under threat. the. mechanized farming has long been able to do much of the work that camels once did so that market value his job sharply the last thirty years have seen the camel population and registers on shrink dramatically. than one alright because says his father used to have twice as many camels as he does.

what i'm what i've been what appeared to additions of being handed down for generations to me look to us but how can we uphold our traditions when we have no income and i mean your own people have to leave for the cities to make a living my children go to school that costs me a lot every month we can no longer make a living with our camels how are we going to survive. on the ground. is the cooler hole left song isn't ethnologist and veterinarian together with one thing iraq war she set up an organization that helps camel herders sustain their livelihood it's an advocacy group for right and i camels and also raises awareness that the animals play a crucial role protecting the environment. come here but why don't they fear they're not our grazing helps tree conservation in many ways more immigrant as a more a lot of trees can only germinate with the hope of women are that you their card.

is grow up it's a natural cycle humans the camels the biotope and the production of quality foodstuffs for them so. camels will be only animals that eat indian globe thistle these short spiky plants are nightmare for farmers without the camels the plant would proliferate all over the fields and choke the crops. camels graze by breaking off a few branches chewing a few leaves and moving on it's a grazing practice that encourages regeneration the camels need large browsing areas and can cover a ten kilometer of the day but changes to agriculture mean that postulate is in short supply. had one thing rats or has been working with camel herd as for nearly three decades in the past and she kidani was

a thriving. which locals own some three thousand camels between them. only remember that we don't look at the minute i don't want to look at now many locals have since switched to buffalo herding it's more profitable. than this and they're also very important so. we're going to sort of the. situation if you like in next the next five years you do can't see any camels in on the road or anywhere because nobody wants. if camels disappeared from the roads of register on traditional rock a culture could also disappear and with it the expertise in agro pastoral herding practices. once a year bull coughs a soul that camel markets for centuries this has been right his main source of income they keep the cals for breeding. camel milk is highly nutritious and

a staple of the right diet they used to say selling camel milk is like selling your children but that's changing too. now every morning right head takes camel milk to a day every founded three years ago by a sons and geo. well. you know i was about to give up and sold my camels and then the organization began selling camel milk so i got my herd back now i'm going to feed my family with what i am selling camel milk. if the organization has stopped selling milk tomorrow. i'd have to sell the herd again if we do. last year he even bought more camels doubling his herds milk production. camels have a very diet eating thirty six different types of plants known for them medicinal

properties so their milk is believed to have many health benefits. but for now the camel charisma micro dairy still isn't selling as much as it could it's operating at just a third of its capacity coming. scepticism has turned into soap a product that sells well another step towards ensuring the rights and income. based paper is made from camel dung feather products that have been developed include textiles made from camel have. here good to preserve their herds the right can need to make a living thirty years ago that will one million camels and run just on today it's just a fifth that nearly all the hood is a now old if they aren't joined by

a younger generation this traditional way of life will soon be lost. with over a quarter of the world employed in that the culture it's not surprising that the practice of farming is crucial what driving world economy i hope today's stories have helped shape your perspective about what lies ahead for us and what individual choices we can make to ensure that the food on our plates is sustainable we'll see you next week with many more thought informative stories until then good but. the.

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