subscribe. documentary to. nutrient rich soil plentiful sun and water and many weeks sometimes months of tedious work. needed to grow the food be. gonged rice or litters but this valuable produce can be supported very quickly and with all the resources needed to grow it how can we change this that's what we'll dig deeper into the

hello welcome this is eco india and on sun. it's not a very a site that a bounty of harvested crop of rot because it remains uncertain and is not stored properly this often sets off a vicious cycle of food scarcity and high prices a simple in a way at the start of this chain of events could break this cycle and that's exactly what in the great tech company in the state of good job is doing let's take a closer look. at. the knish by a farmer in cocker keno usually harvest his leafy vegetables to deny by 6 in the morning they need to be ready to hit the markets on a good day he misses his entire produce but that they're. able to sell the produce we have to bring it back home. and the next day we can

take it back because no one buys it that is lost our names. like danish by the majority of small farmers in india are forced to through a very some of their crops because they don't have any means to cool them more than 30 percent of the country's agricultural produce goes to waste every year. that amounts to a loss of over 11000000000 euros. per quarter which. wants to remedy the problem last year the social entrepreneur started working with local farmers like the women farmers federation in calcutta killa. the overarching issue that we found on our own because our experiences in actually supply chain especially in horticulture forced one marginal formosa's their tendency to just sell of the produce the same day that they harvest in some cases

they're going to harvest produce that was ripe and ready in the field only because they were not getting any price for that. so one of the key elements that was we felt preserved in facility at the farm gate. nearest moratti founded his own company. with the help of the women farmers federation he installed a cold storage in concord in mid september 29000 and began educating the farmers on how to use it. after studying the cultivation and harvesting patterns of the region it was decided how much cold storage the village required now it can refrigerated up to $4000.00 kilos of produce at a time the farmers have been able to increase their income by around 30 percent. ringback before they were kind of selling it by the wayside the roadside and all of that now they were going to go. collect it on a day so you go to the market the next day or after

a couple of days when they see the prices they're getting those prices. on a short duration the day i mean this is time for the feedback has been really good . you know is a tribal village in the heart of district of. home to a few 1000 people most are smallholder like 65 percent of the families in india. sorry lebanon has been working the land for 30 years she's a strong supporter of the new storage facility. and they don't. have to back the crops carefully in large baskets and load them onto a truck. now because of the cost storage facility we can keep our produce for long though. we don't necessarily have to take it to the market every day and because. we've definitely benefited from this. oh you know our

produce used to go bad. but now we can easily keep it in here for van or 2 days. this has made a huge difference. on days when the going rate at the market is low begin stored it in here and sell up produce when the read has picked up then. he spends his in family home on the. roof solar panels supplied a facility with free electricity a good crop owns it and the farmers paid rent to them the firm gets a return after 2 years. the farmers learn how to regulate the temperature of the storage for. different produce have different kinds of stories temperature and if they want to store it for longer duration than they need to adhere to that particular

temperature and humidity range that any historical and that 4 door based interface allows them to do the cold storage and the sorting for like $34.00 days. which is good for all kinds of produce being stored with it as well. the phone now has toting operational cord stores in india the company charges farmers a maximum of one euro cent per day per k.g. to refereed to produce the exact amount depends on how frequently do you use the facility and how much do you store. 45 farmers have used the facility so far. everyone has benefited neighboring village also wants a facility like this after looking at how much it has helped me how could a. good crop aims to install 200 units mission by over the next 5 years but the startup also hopes to maximise the smallholders profits in other ways.

found a new rich martin is developing market analytics offered to predict short term fluctuations in crop prices to help these women get the best possible price for the fruits of their labor. there's so much potential for innovation in the agricultural sector especially when the edible land we have access to is diminishing every day open farming is gaining more and more traction because of this what it often can't produce to ski because of a lack of space on inadequate access to light a life company in the netherlands is experimented to replace sunlight with the lights in indoor greenhouses let's see how. the earth is home to some 7600000000 people the majority live in cities green spaces are shrinking. how viable an

option is in farming for example green houses lit by. buildings without sunlight. the every day light bulbs provide illumination by day and night and the plants compete harvested at any time of the year. becoming standard lighting solutions in greenhouses they have long been undergoing testing here in the netherlands in the laboratory of signify it's europe's biggest lighting manufacturer and a spinoff of dutch technology giant philips so far the company has equipped around $1000.00 greenhouses with the lighting systems we have for callers inside so it's red it's blue it's why then it's far out of florida is typically pretty are known to us because it's outside of our i sense there are bigger. indoor farming is a market with huge potential. and the l.e.d. lights help to guarantee predictable and controllable harvests. so what you

see over here is a dynamic light fixture that can change in color and by changing the color during the trial or just before the end of just before harvesting we can for example influence the bricks value of strawberries so that's the sweetness of the strawberry but also make it a little bit more hardy or let's say so that it's better to transport. the company calculates the particular light fixture its customers need and savings can be achieved by just using red and blue light which produces the magenta color here. the mix depends on the plants and the ambient light greenhouses in siberia for example has less sunlight than those in spain. or market is growing super fast if you look at the different reports that are out in the market you see a real trend that are becoming more interesting also it's not because they don't

make money that companies like are growing fast in russia would by $25.00 factors and $25.00 factors it's around 400 kilometers of alley the lights and that was the biggest project we did to date. another customer that has bought the lighting systems is the dutch tomato farm didn't pater's its greenhouses measure 16 hector has an area amounting to something like 20 soccer pitches. the crops are illuminated by magenta l.e.d. light from below and from above by high intensity high pressure sodium h.p.'s lamps the company has invested millions the tomato vines grow to an amazing height of 6 metres the growers need lifts to reach the tops using the l.e.d. lights the company can achieve larger and more constant harvests than without the lighting. we have the positioning of the in the middle of the crop.

research. shows us the. idea must be about 80 centimeters to one metre. below the top of the plant because the top of the plant is affected by. lightning and daylight. and one metre below the effect of the daylight. is gone. tomatoes are perishable they can't be easily transported in container ships from far away countries. but they can be easily grown in greenhouses. thanks to the l.e.d. lights they can harvest more 20 tons per week even in the middle of winter. very sweet. but what's important is that the taste. stays in your mouth for

a longer time so this not only the place is gone immediately. you get a certain bite of the tomato. of course lighting the plants all year round uses up lots of energy as does the heating via the pipes that run between the plants on the floor to generate it the company maintains a gas fired power plant and that highlights a major disadvantage of this kind of farming the energy cost of producing artificial sunlight outdoor farmers get the sun for free. we often notice that on the one hand there is an abundance of food thanks to the many innovations in the agricultural sector but on the other hand medians of people go to bed hungry every night i recall heat of this week has been working towards channeling excess food in the city of mumbai to those who need it the most.

in a country like india with a population of more than 1000000000 almost 200000000 people go hungry every day. again such stark numbers with feeding every hungry stomach can go a long way a retired police officer has been doing these beats to help as many people as he can in the city of mumbai a mission is to cover a 1000000 people a year that is a lack of money leave that out of 200000000 between going without food to get leave to our revolution to the high dine the garment and other agencies to help people. inspired by similar organizations across the world sivanandan issue to bank which translates as bread bank collects leftover food from restaurants weddings and

parties and distributes it amongst the hungry. when i saw in the police that people even though anything for me i said that even when i was coming to the police i tried to believe all the children. still got out and i was there with god imputes you're going to give them give the order education and they think that. with a truck to 14 our operational helpline number and a fleet of pickup bands banking shows that the food collected is distributed within the hour. the initiative has also identified hunger pockets across the city through mapping systems so that no time is wasted we have one of us. in finding out the hunger if we cannot go and it's to be the one that is. all

engineering college students we do not. see that again and give it we give it in such a way that it's popular that it's distributed to the media. particularly. since its launch of december 27th. more than 350000 people in mumbai over the next few years it hopes to scale up operations in order to meet. before extending its reach to other parts of india. in the city of manila in the philippines more than 2000 tons of food is thrown every day and all you can each of us only fueling this problem an organization in the city is trying to create awareness among. and shift to.

poverty it's what drives these people to look through sacks of garbage and for something to eat they've been sifting through the waste since early this morning. the food doesn't have to be appetizing it just shouldn't make them sick. you can take it it is spoiled take it home wash boiler then cook it. for live feeds her family with food someone else has thrown away the term for such scraps in the local language tagalog is pagpag about 13000000 people in the philippines can't afford 3 meals a day this is the other side of the philippines though prosperous and waste for all you can eat buffets are very popular with those who can pay for them of course restaurants throw away all a lot of the food they prepare. the recent years. i always

got the source is that what this is i'm literally and from this if you. 8 need to keep you close process as we transfer not sure our history you would so on obesity it's hard once you get into that. melody mellow reich runs the sustainable production and consumption project of the n.g.o.s w w f l opinions she advises restaurants and hotels on ways to reduce waste today she's visiting the resort town of to gateway it's about an hour and a half drive from manila members of the city's growing middle class like to spend the weekend here chilling out and eating while the picnic grove is a park where people do exactly what the name suggests many bring along food from home it's a culture thing so we we always find excuses to get together so we kept going share

food this is one way of us are a lot of mind that a family with a friends. increasing prosperity goes hand in hand with growing wastefulness an estimated 300000 tons of rice are thrown away in the philippines every year. modernize willow is doing something to combat that he's a cook who prepares healthy dishes at a spa hotel. as we know is determined to minimize waste he uses every part of a vegetable that can be eaten and compost organic waste and he takes other steps as well. but the best are actually the best ways through portioning are used to serve the big questions about dishes and a lot was wasted so we decided to downsize all portions. modernize where lho was involved in the project run by melody mellow reich she often explains to chefs how

wasting food is bad for the climate. when you household waste and they end up in landfills they became naturally and the produce more potent greenhouse gas in the form of methane which is more than 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in our atmosphere and. the hotel where as way low works even offers its guests tours of its own kitchen garden serves as i bring forward and for the if behind you we have here phase now as well as cooking classes . as we know teaches guests ways to avoid generating waste when they cook at home. he also recommends using parts of plants that are usually discarded like banana flowers. or making fries out of potato skins.

or soup out of onion skin and. right now i can like i should of you then i. began part of the parts that i have before and now i know more. i think i should be modified to boil them in cooking very thing. of course classes at a luxury hotel don't reach a wide audience and large volumes of food will continue to be discarded across the country but there's now a bill before parliament in the philippines that would oblige food manufacturers restaurants hotels and supermarkets to donate surplus edible food for distribution by food banks to the needy. for no though huge amounts of discarded food still end up in a dump in the district of pions us waste pickers here look for things of value in the garbage. phillippa by a day usually find some food that looks at a bowl she started working as

a waste picker 2 years ago after her husband died the burden of feeding the family so completely on her shoulders. the 1st thing she does with the chicken she retrieved from the refuse is boil it to kill the bacteria. then she fries it with onions and serves it to her children and grandchildren or suffer . a little. here you either have work or you don't share it would be better not to have to eat this but it's this or nothing. life start. her family will probably have to continue living off discarded food but receiving it from a food bank would certainly be better than pulling it out of a pile of garbage. she says bolting stench is something you never get used to.

conventional patterns of food production are changing rapidly due to climate change often intriguing these farmers in norway are used to lonely and harsh winters and if we started early found it impossible to grow certain kinds of fruit like grapes for example global warming has meant grapes can now in fact right but in a cold country like norbit. telemark county in southern norway the winter cold set seen as early as october or november yet because of global warming it's now possible to grow grapes am not far from kraft is knackered cos i'm one of the northernmost binion's on earth. here all day usually fall back 10 years and have a cyst grains we have got warmer were in the summer we still have the cold winters it's

a right. to produce grapes fruits also in this area. the soil is quite fertile and rich in minerals event one chose the great variety as for their resistance to the winter cold they come from russia north america and germany like the salaries for writing. it's great that the receipts the called really good. need so good no reach and some are to be specially when very good but that also is a group that is very fruity. gives so very good taste former wine and we use it to make the white wine we have only for. lack of concept also produces red same wine. a day you should involve back himself enjoys a glass with his wife lilian. the region are where it.

now is stick so. to big to get no which no wind that's something very very special. the rosé even wanted gold medal from the norwegian so many association in 2018 the telemark skiing is used for racing what developed here in telemark county in the 18th century visitors to lack a class of in yonder can enjoy a good norwegian wine and even spend the night inside a refurbished wine barrel. the norwegian guests are acquainted with the wines and wine growing practices of other countries from travels abroad and little comparison . nick left him. good taste. gently it's lighter and not so red this. summer used to. tell him out county already has

a long history of growing other kinds of fruit the region's apples are especially tasty. so various fruit wines are also a part of the vineyards repertoire apple wine for example. norway has only about half a dozen commercial wine growers but this could change as the been a sea bright prospects for their future. solutions for a cleaner greener planet a sign forced softer on what action we take after seeing the site in force is entirely in our hands i hope we inspired you to move forward in your sustainability journey until next week from our entire team in india and germany thank you very

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