the but. they're just gives people move south so they. try and feed. them dry climate change become the main driver. right any apocalyptic scenario. and the country. on the backs of their. own t.w. . 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 how the hyperloop the farm in mumbai is producing dreams for the crowded city how robots will turn around farming as we know which to be and how traditional camel herders involve just on a 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 the system needed the twenty five percent of this is damaged along the way 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 directly to their doorstep. it's. located in the heart of the bustling and haiti suburb of this old industrial building gives little to the unsuspecting passer by. but walk in and you'll discover the city's first ever climate controlled hyper local farm. this space is a farm for dreams 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 dew was 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 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 substrates for the plants.

the soil is replaced by water a metal talk to talk back to the past of civilization off central america. farms harvest more than two thousand plants every month. the press of dreams that includes dreams like swiss chard lettuce kill and rocket hopes as. 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 of 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 before 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 farms and. very high and that affects the price but

toby was gone 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 a 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 for what it actually makes so much more sense because the producer. 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 regular. hydroponic farming has the potential to be a model for the future especially 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 for those and we feel that the world needs a lot more going go to rivers.

joshua have gone with their model of sustainable farming but there are so many options available to be sure who could be in your backyard and this not only makes sure the to norway or previous coming from but also hopes to improve the climate and biodiversity a project has been paving the we are paying you as well because. fresh peppermint and edible flowers. to him a bit cafe specializes in the good include sr 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 is 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 timothy it 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 plant crates. gardens i now find around the world the princess and garden features more than five hundred right he's a vegetables 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 open spaces shouldn't just be somewhat off. urban gardens should be a part of every city. that. the budgetary and dishes served in the cafes all featuring locally sourced ingredients. are going to go to it in india is deeply affected by extreme bedrooms temperature of ice and moving forward constantly causing the body of farmers in the country a program commissioned by the german government. is helping farm was planned 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 that he and dick knology would future proof 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 hama vajra in southwestern india working next to fields has become far easier since they started using a harvesting machine. from i don't know how to farm from my father he learnt it from his father. thank you are you familiar 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 makers. 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 the end of the day with a good plan good power the farmer will have more potatoes than what the traditional ox of. 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 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 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 the finest 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 to montpellier he goes to great lengths to protect his precious seedlings from pests 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 hong. farmers are spreading the word that you can buy good seedlings from us. they also give us good feedback about the crop growth of quality seedlings. from greenhouses to potato harvesting machines and cooling facilities technology is being used to benefit consumers in farmers and. 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 persevere he'd let's find out. who wants growing here we need or carrots. here in this field a prototype has been tested the hope is that this technology will be able to combat weans and improve harvests. meet bonnie rob a robot that works for organic farmer trying to customs. which grab the thrift of 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 robb has to be able to identify which plants are wanted and which ones aren't as 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 green 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 in front of this levy 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 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. on. the route i have just programmed through. the tractor 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 an 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 franco 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 start the feeding machine autonomous. we currently have two thousand or so feeding them by hand as inconceivable it's good to have all the automated feeding. follow the marshes find food. back at the carriage field the vegetable crop is being separated from the weeds by hammond at

least it's environmentally friendly and 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. we know that in the long term we won't have any more so we need the technology to help keep the weeds on our fields in check because of them. but there's a big demand for big visions of farming can benefit greatly from digitalisation. home is 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 in the state of this time is already feeling the effects of mass mechanize ation a fact. known to be traditional camel herders they're struggling to really khalil's profitably for their milk and for they were at 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. earthly a verb. the rights of the people have been hurting camels here and registered on for centuries

reich a tradition holds that lord shiva created that cost specifically so they could look off to camels but times have changed that 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. in 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 young 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 we going to survive. on the ground. is the cooler hole left song isn't ethnologist and veterinarian together with one thing wrapped war she set up an organization that helps camel hood has sustained their livelihood it's an advocacy group for reika and the camels and also raises awareness that the animals play a crucial role protecting the environment. in america why don't they fear then our grazing helps treat conservation in many ways for immigrant. a lot of trees can only germinate with the help of women ask that you their cut. is grow up it's a natural cycle humans the camels the biotope and the production of quality food stuffs for going on. camels live the only animals that eat indian globe face 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 a ten kilometer of the day but changes to agriculture mean that postulate is in short supply. had one thing rats war has been working with camel herd as for nearly three decades in the past and he kidani was a thriving. age locals own some three thousand camels between them. only remember that we don't look at him. i don't want to look at now many locals have since switched to buffalo herding it's more profitable. than this and they also don't want. really bad condition of the. situation if you like in next the

next five years you're to go and see any camels in on the road or anywhere because nobody wants. if camels disappear from the roads a gradual traditional reika culture could also disappear and with it the expertise in agro pastoral herding practices. once a year bull calf's 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 ben while i write head takes camel milk to a day every founded three years ago by. sons and geo.

well. 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 stopped selling milk tomorrow. i'd have to sell the herd again. 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. surplus melkus turned into soap

a product that sells well and other step towards ensuring the right to an income. based paper is made from camel dung feather products that have been developed include textiles made from camel have. to preserve the hugs the right can mean to make a living thirty years ago there were one million camels and around just on today it's just a fifth. nearly overheard as a now old if they are joined by a younger generation this traditional way of life will soon be. with over a quarter of the world employed in that recall chuck 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

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