students are. training successful. starts trying trying. to. hello and welcome to a new edition of. nigeria on today's show we'll be putting the focus on farming including a look at how it's changing i would call. i'm joined by my colleague in uganda. and a big hello from kampala uganda to all of viewers today what did you know that one

flood of the global population walks in the agricultural sector here in africa it is over half the population that is why we decided to make a special edition the team's all about me. we'll find out haul in south africa farming mix for healthy soil. and how food is grown with hydroponics in nigeria. and finally why farming doesn't have to mean deforestation. we start the show in south africa anyone who's ever been there will have noticed the thousands of kilometers or fencing that caught of course the land usually designed to contain the cut to fences have a devastating effect on the environment they are not only a deadly trial for the wildlife they also prevent a lifestyle from moving around pretty which leaves all the grazing and non-degree addiction some hadas on the boss in this trend and they are spearheading an

ecological revolution. when herders lead their livestock on to the great plains of the car route in central south africa the animals on allowed to linger. to protect the vegetation from overgrazing they have to be kept on the move as a result they can only eat the tips of the plants. head chef addicts nothing cooper has years of experience and of seeing how the landscape has changed since he's been grazing his animals here it is. it's. pitch is in the grass grow to work not that much but now since we have had it you see process. we know these are people now changing even on crazing paper and that is one quote that you. heard is all part of the shepherding but biodiversity project it supports commercial marched. keeping while boosting land restoration on this 24000 hectare farm.

was once much greener and home to millions of antelope and buffalo their hooves loose in the topsoil while the droppings fertilized it. in a bid to recreate the great migrations of the past the project employs shepherds to lead livestock over the plains to. the project leader he's confident that herders can help revive the whole region. as we fundamentally believe that this method of farming give space for wildlife to co-exist with production agriculture so that's really the simple vision is to find a mechanism by which we can. foster bio diversity on production farms. the thousands of kilometers of fences needed for intensive livestock a culture one of the main reasons why wildlife has disappeared. fences prevent the

animals from roaming free as they search for grazing land and water. they often end up tangled in barbed wire. in order to study the effects of the fenceless farming method on the environment because just some monitoring the project. over the past 2 years head researcher janine mcmanus and a group of students have recorded the number of plant species in selected study sites. in addition the group evaluates the earth budgetary index the index is determined by the amount of green seen on the ground by satellites and allows researchers to compare on growth in different regions over time. you can really start picking up changes in trains with the way the hood has been grazing especially over a longer recent period and parts of the farm and the green index shows up quite pronounced and we compared it to traditional farms where it isn't quite as

pronounced and they seems to be quite a significant color it's just looking at the pixels alone you know and taking the green out of pixelization but from that alone you can really start to see a difference. there are many positive signs. areas that have been grazed by the herds on now seeing thicker plant growth. slowly while the animals are returning to the farm more than 500 antelope have been counted and even a leopard was recently sighted. a major success for dixon in coober specially since south africa is still recovering from one of the worst droughts in recorded history . we should be see process continues for the rest of the ladder so that if there were any damage to the lender until it was so that even the neighbors in other countries can be more inspired about what it is seeing this take on. the project could inspire neighboring farmers many of them saw their london grade and lost livestock due to

the severe drought for the shepherds however this year's lambing season turned out to be very successful adding another $800.00 sheep to the herd slowly but surely the project is turning profitable. and now we go to germany where the agriculture sector also plays an important role in the economy not surprisingly production there is becoming more and more more dead on tight tech no can grow bored and drones about the field are part of daily life but now a new into vision could be added a robot in the field tell us more. it's a prototype sandra but it could make life far easier for the farmers in the future but ideas too far using fewer people and vast sea of all resources envy and just 3 of the kids to help population but have a look. 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 tony rob a robot that works for organic farmer trying to customs. discover the fish 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. the farmers already having problems finding enough employees to work his fields on iraq 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 those who come with us for service. 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 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 hope to mys the use of seeds and fertilizer it's providing a new line of business for agricultural machinery engineers. hearing from this levy and some say will have to feed line or 10000000000 people 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. the obvious is the route i've just programmed. the tractor follows 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 livestock to helping to boost profits feeding has long been automated panko says farmer should still visit their animals at least once a day. reopen. we currently have 2000 ok so feeding them by hand is inconceivable it's good to have fully automated feeding. follow to 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 8 hours when will this work be automated.

we know that in the long term we work 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 go from 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 100 drones fly out and around the field and doing everything automatically. everything depends on the new technological possibilities and how we exploit. them. these days farming is becoming increasingly high tech in europe and in africa too here in nigeria for example there's a lot of research being done into solutions for feeding the booming population who are protecting the environment we visit a company in lagos that is reducing the negative. impact of farming with an

innovative hydroponic system it uses less land and little or no soil for the cultivation of fresh produce the frog is helping drive on an agricultural revolution. these bazil possibly and little plants especially they being drowned with old use a normal soil vision over to systemise called i drip products to feed the plants they gardeners use. made from the block of the coconut tree. transfer years not. you transfer its chemical additives basically. natural state and a special vegetable form that has micro nutrients that the plants need they got no color we grew began growing herds and vegetables in lagos 2 years ago fresh

produce is often difficult to find into nigerian megacity and organic products are even harder to get hold of. starts with a need to. i want to empower the farmers and also with the consumer in mind in terms of providing fresh quality produce tall consumers which is real farm to table which is part of the whole agricultural revolution that's going on in the world by growing locally they could even under caught the prices of the organic produce a valuable in the city bodies still make profits conventionally grown vegetables so to other markets cost around 30 percent more than the organic ones here i buy keil spinny's you know lexi's most of them i imported suv get very expensive but the seas look in the groom and danny so the price a nice it's very reasonable when you think about what you're getting nothing can be

fresh for you know straight from from farm to mouth the whole concept nothing if it's not too expensive. it's environmentally friendly other company only delivers within the city it keeps its carbon footprint low the firm is also helping other farmers to follow its example. we. branch of the comp and it's part of the continent that literally you know being good people are pretty fond of them and then chance fights that. so far they've helped 3 farmers to launch their own businesses. dr natale we are planning to expand and are currently sitting up 2 new c.t. farms in lagos. here in africa the effects of the climate crisis have never been more apparent and the farming sector is inevitably hardest hit in

ethiopia for instance the farmers plant what are supposed to be high yield crops every year but the land is so parts that they barely have anything to harvest other life in its institute in germany ethiopian researches are learning how to boost biodiversity and revive and conserve local c varieties that can withstand the drought and other environmental threats. biologist. is showing 3 visitors around the fields of the live in its institute of plant genetics and crop plant research in central germany. so you see the 3 i work at the seed bank of the ethiopian biodiversity institute in ad is the largest of its kind in africa they want to find out what their colleagues in germany are doing to improve the quality of crop seeds. on. the market likes the hands on part of the process and here she is learning things she

hopes to implement back home she's manager of the seed bank and i disobey. we don't know who is showing 3 visitors around the fields of the live in its institute of plant genetics and crop plant research in central germany. so you think the 3 i work at the seed bank of the ethiopian biodiversity institute in addas ababa the largest of its kind in africa they want to find out what their colleagues in germany are doing to improve the quality of crop seeds. if. the market likes the hands on part of the process he or she is learning things she hopes to implement back home she's manager of the seed bank in addison. we don't know what moral can bring so we always want to save our. life even though we support

a life of food shelter and maids it's. a base for our living. it's a question of living. so housing. is supporting life. shows her guests the treasure trove at the heart of the institute the seed bank with over 150000 samples from crop plants from around the world. gathered over a period of several decades. on the other side. so has been collaborating with her colleagues for 9 years now. the diversity of species is astounding for example that of more than $9000.00 varieties of being in the collection alone size of a seed bank here in gutters leaving is one of the largest in the world source of collecting mission. over riotous have lower yields but they can cope better with changing climatic conditions they're more robust in times of drought lack of water often

turn soil acidic or leads to a build up of minerals and heavy metals these for riot is can withstand all of that better than more fragile modern seeds more than a. lot of us are has got to know the problems farmers face in ethiopia firsthand for sure they tend to plant the same crops year in year out which leads to soil degradation and ever lower yields new varieties are needed. the institute and also has fields where new strains are tested strains developed that with the help of a german seed company. that more back at the likeness institute in germany this week has grown from seeds collected in the 1950 s. the variety actually originated in ethiopia but has died out there this is the 6th robot wimps samples have since been sent back to the seed bank and is ababa along with seeds of other crops once and demick to ethiopia really certain strains of wheat and mustard more than 7000 in all now they're back home and available for

research and possibly cultivation we want to apply or to use all of my heroes for sustainable. development so most of our seed. researchers from different research institutes in the country and students are studying for their ph. and with the visitors from ethiopia want to expand the testing of older varieties at their own institute to establish which ones could withstand stress factors such as dryness or acidic soil this is an important step to boost sustainable farming in ethiopia important that's what import and we spin europe one next report in poland many farmers practice industrialised synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are common as intensive life stock following but in recent years the demand has been changing with more and more people buying

organically produced. it is a trend that we are seeing all over the world and in poland a country that is traditionally grounded in agriculture these growing market is providing opportunities to the increasing number of organic dairy farmers we went to meet the sun with cheese makers. in eastern poland helen the sky is leaving her go to head through the meadows. a couple of years ago she and her daughter isabella to chose 1st started with a handful of animals now they take care of 300 goats. from them though the family produces a variety of different organic cheeses that have become a hit with the locals. she added there was a time when people said oh good lord goat cheese no it really smells bad and it can't

possibly taste good. it took several years to convince poles to try some other twos besides the cow's milk factory kind. was practically nonexistent it's only now that it's become trendy. to chaska is one of the 1000 out is an old cheese make his in poland the 25 year old is a psychologist by training but has decided to come on board in the family run business today the farm boasts more than 50 head tis a pasture and produces around 10 tons of organic tease each year. and the other farm in the region that rancher a french era has a similar back story. sylvia schlender of it and her family specialize in organic cows and sheep cheeses.

some 15 years ago they left the city to buy a ramshackle far. over the years they renovated it and turned it into a flourishing cheese business. they have no trouble selling their dairy close to home that they have in europe there are fewer and fewer natural rich herbs and so i think that's one reason why archies the such a hit not only that coles that but also some italian french or spanish people. in poland organic food still has a small market share compared to other european nations. yet the demand is growing rapidly. more and more people are willing to pay a premium for high quality and sustainably produced food that means there are lots of opportunities for the country's organic cheese farmers to grow their herds even bigger. all too often and

all over the world farming goes hard in hand with different station in many african countries slashing and bonding is the way to prepare land for planting crops regardless of whether that land is depleted or the time but many overlook the fact that this method destroys the so way down below the surface one young man in senegal has come up with an alternative one that is good for the soil and the air and can even produce better harvests. these are she is still hot recently trees are cut down here and want to make room for new fields. the tropical forest and on the religion of subtle insult on senegal is endangered. the palmira palm is an part of the forest in provides the villagers with fruit with wood to build on each other with palm leaves for their roofs of the huts.

but again and again the forest isn't too late clement somebody is a form of from start to who wants to protect the trees he sees the slash and burn my thought is actually harmful for agriculture although the new fields may be fertile vining also causes soil erosion which is bad for the palmira palm trees. they don't appear for all. this is an example of a devastating bushfire last year someone set a fire here and then just left you can see the back of this tree barn down to the base and that means the whole tree is now much more vulnerable the important. new way. a crisis meeting village elder christoph collie explains how serious the situation ease slashing and burning does not only destroy a forest uncontrolled fires threaten the village itself. and i'm very.

busy resuming a founded a committee that will look into the organisation of a troll i don't turn to villagers from our own suit to participating in order to get these bush fires under control clearly says them i did what would have to put a bullet but the final claim and somebody who doesn't think but trolls will help he discovered a method on the internet which will make depleted soils for tell again this method is called hugel quota or hill culture fast of unusable logs and dead branches is lead don't believe the grass and weeds is put on top then it only needs watering in time it becomes a fight a bit for planting clemence some who tried it on his own fields and was successful . or new but we only want to eat once a week so not a lot and if you put your hands on top of it it's as if you're

a deep in the woods a really nice damp foreign soil and that's just what the plants need to thrive live report is when you put. this returns villagers plant mostly veggie tables on their fields claman someone who teaches them the forest friendly method. which also gives them valuable compost for. cecil said not decided to use the compost on her fields. mineral my longer lesson with. us i make compost it gives me a profit instead of having to buy for. with these profit i take care of my house and i take care of my children my 2 nephews i can go to the market to buy the hands that he raised to secure my future and save a forest master that can deposit. it so when we news in compost to revitalize the depleted fields and let them fatten again takes the pony

up palm trees. and the whole tropical forest. i'm afraid we've run out of time for today we hope the show has given you some useful information on how farming can help positive but also devastating effect on the environment from the ecological farming to new technologies and that's it for those weak. goodbye from lagos nigeria. and goodbye from me to here in kampala uganda we'll be back next week with a new edition of africa in the meantime if you want to get in touch visit our website or you can drop us a line take care and stay safe see you next time good fun.

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