this is not the kind of freedom that we want how did we become a gateway to islamist terror. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. in the sights of fire starts. on. hello welcome this is eco india a sustainability magazine show which trains the spotlight on solutions that are taking us closer to a greener tomorrow by twenty fifty the population of the world is set across 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 for those

who bring food to walk tables all while making sure our systems are environmentally sustainable that's our focus to be on some of that rubble coming to you from mumbai in india over the next thirty minutes the hyperloop a farm in mumbai is producing dreams for the crowded city how robots will turn around farming as we know which today and how traditional camel herders and rob just on are coping with the changing times first let's look at some basics traditionally farm produce in india has traveled from hand local 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 farm in mumbai is trying to change this by creating a sustainable model of farming where the city's residents have access to freshly harvested produce delivered developed lead to their door step. it's.

located in the heart of the bustling and haiti suburb this old industrial building gives a little over to the unsuspecting passer by. but walk in and you'll discover the city's fast ever climate controlled hyper local farm. this space is a farm for the 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 the plates we

felt like we missed a sense of purpose we 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 on like 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 are substrates for the plants. and. this soil is. by want to

amend to talk to hark back to the aspects of central america. farms harvest more than two thousand plants every month. an impressive range that includes leafy greens like swiss chard lettuce kill and rocket as well as edible flags. 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 the 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're going to make sure that the food is clean you need to know where 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 pumps and temperature regulations. and that affects the price. of fifty strong.

each morning the fresh harvest is then delivered to the customers to ensure freshness flavor 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 me for what it actually

makes so much more sense because the produce is far better and. i like that about it because if i just seen a couple of salads through the week i know that i'm getting. a value that i wouldn't be getting if i was eating from regular. hydroponic farming has the potential to be a model for the future is specially when it comes to feeding the world's booming 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 photos and we feel that the world needs a lot more going to go to rivers. and joshua have gone commercial with their. of sustainable farming but there are so

many options available to be sure your balcony in your backyard and this not only makes sure that you norway or coming from but also hopes to improve the climate and biodiversity a project has been giving the we are now. fresh peppermint. and edible flowers. to him a peach cafe specializes in vague it includes scenes 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 with him a bit 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 a vacant site and set up a plan to create. urban gardens i know find around the world the princess and garden features more than five hundred right is a virtue of course but there's more to it than just growing progeny used. city dwellers can try out new things here. so organized and disciplined but they also have open spaces where people can work on projects like this. have a real role to play opens. shouldn't just we sold off over four of those urban

gardens should be a part of every city. the budgetary and dishes served in the cafes all featuring locally sourced increasing and. i could go to the india is deeply affected by extreme bedrooms temperature of ice and movie constantly causing body farmers in the country a program commissioned by the german government between innovation centers is helping farmers plan better working in the streets of maharashtra could not decline under british the program guides farmers in the improvement of seeds quality and the use of machine the b. and pick knology a good 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 because. lakshmi gallagher and his family live in one of

our a in southwestern india working next to fields 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. thank you are you going to 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. with the. german development agency g i said runs a green innovation center in india among its tasks is bringing together farmers an agricultural machinery mancos. the ball i'm trying to flush farmers have small fields in india and so 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 ploughing good power the farmer will have more potatoes than with the traditional ox oxen from. india is the world's second biggest potato producer off to china a lot of india's produce roots before it can be sold the un estimates the india loses forty percent of its harvest due to insufficient infrastructure. i have someone is one of the people behind a solution backed by the g.i. said he runs a cold storage facility for seed potatoes. who are the what the this 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 by the. fast food ever ready tomatoes

he goes to great lengths to protect his precious seedlings from pest launch trades now give the plant small space for their roots to develop today he's able to sell his entire output in the old days it was just hard. on their. promises 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 hostetler recovered one. minute. from greenhouses to potato harvesting machines and cooling facilities technology is being used to benefit consumers and farmers ally 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 b. to b. processes and walk in farmers to be hit 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 customs. discover to fish to life 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 through some of. 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 relying on chemicals but the robot is still at the learning stage or the farmer has brought in i.t. experts to help bonnie rock has to be able to identify which plants are wanted and which ones aren't forced or. you can imagine drawing a picture with a green marker and a red marker and then we tell them 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 gray 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 optimize the use of seeds and fertilizer it's providing a new line of business for agricultural machinery engineers. here for listening and someday we'll have to feed nine or ten billion people stop 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 being conducted at the farm work i anchor himself learned his trade. his heavy machinery is connected to a network wherever possible with the help of the internet drivers must understand ever more challenging technology. of. the obvious is the route i have just programmed. the track to follow that route there's no need to steer satellite maps help the machinery stay exactly on calls

but it also makes it possible to track employees 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 panko 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. to. reopen . we currently have two thousand or so feeding them by hand as inconceivable it's good to have all the 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 is powered 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. and 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 in call of them are crammed with to the people here there's a big demand for big visions of farming can benefit greatly from digitalisation. 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 doing 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 in the state of this time is already feeling the effects of mass make an isolation of agriculture known to be traditional camel herders this struggling to really 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 let's take an. earth. her to the right the people have been hurting camels here in registration for centuries reich a tradition holds that lord shiva created a caste specifically said they could look after camp. but times have changed the

traditional way of life is now under threat. mechanized farming has long been able to do much of the work that camels once did so that market value his drop 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. but on the more appeared traditions of being handed down for generations they mean look to us but how can we uphold our traditions when we have no income when young people have to leave for the cities to make a living my children go to school that cost me a lot every month we can no longer make a living with our camels how we going to survive. on the bread there. is the cool a hole if song isn't ethnologist and veterinarian together with one thing wrapped

war she says help an organization that helps camel herders sustain their livelihood it's an advocacy group for reika and i camels and also raises awareness that the animals play a crucial role protecting the environment. to come here but why don't. they know how our grazing helps treat conservation in many ways more immigrant. a lot of trees can only germinate with the help of women are signs that you they're cut. described as a natural cycle humans camels the biotope and the production of quality food stuffs hope for going to the. camels of the only animals that eat indian globe fix all these short spiky plants or nightmare for famines 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 ten kilometers a day but changes to agriculture mean that postulate is in short supply. had one thing rattle has been working with camel herd as for nearly three decades in the past and he kidani was a thriving village locals own some three thousand camels between them. only remember that we don't want to get a minute i don't want a little bit 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 solve the. situation if you like in next the next five years your book. on that or do it anyway because nobody wants. if camels disappeared from the roads of

register on traditional reika 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 because 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 or founded three years ago by. sons and geo. well whatever but. you know i was about to give up i 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 to stop 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 karisma micro dairy still isn't selling as much as it could it's operating at just a third of its capacity. sepsis melkus turned into soap a product that sells well another step towards ensuring the right an income.

this paper is made from camel dung feather products that have been developed include textiles made from camel have. yet 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. what a quarter of the world employed in that of a culture it's not surprising that the practice of farming is crucial what driving world economy i hope to these stories have helped shape your perspective about what lies ahead for us and what individual choices we can make to ensure the food on our plates is sustainable we'll see you next week with many more thought informative stories until then good but.

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