this venture is proving to be a success. was in july his product was certified as organic by an agency in germany. and that's something he's very proud of. your view of the earth is going to be undergoing a lot of the sick with the i don't use fertilizer everything is just the same as up in the mountains the bacteria in the soil and the humans with they make the plants strong rather than but. she doesn't need to do any marketing customers come to him to buy his produce. he's been experimenting with a number of crops red love apples for example very recent cultivar with red flash resistant to disease. has been here. and goji berries from china they thrive here too. she also sells cuttings to those who want to emulate him. bossy and lama would love to see others

do precisely that. he collaborates with local foresters veterinarians and agronomists they advise small hold farmers in the mountains for example on how to get a bank loan purchase livestock or set up a market garden. to corrupt correct nick nature park is a lovely place to hike but visitors are few and far between because of the pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions. the people and flocks who live here are pretty much alone. there are many feeder is a shepherd he has a hard time making a living but unlike many of his contemporaries who go abroad he wants to stay. asan lama often comes up here to the mountain pastures to talk to the locals find

out what problems they face and help work on solutions. they say it's getting harder and harder to find places for their flocks to graze. the numbers of the seabees the grazing every year and. have taken over the past are the limbs the fostering this is the main problem that they are losing . significant part of. it's a vicious circle. i'm aris family spends the summer months up in the mountains they spend the winter down in the village amorous mother doesn't need to worry about her son he learnt everything he knows from her. he knows he doesn't lead a comfortable life like people in the city but he also knows that he has a lot more than his family did 100 years ago. i don't know. of course i would like to have a big car. but you have to make

a choice. if you love this kind of life up here as i do then you can't go and live in a big city there. still it's tough tending sheep or growing crops here and our aim for the next series that we need to let's say support these activities and these families in order that they can let's say profit from the from this at the view that they are doing this is the main i mean think. i'm ready feeders family seem to be content with their lives. they recently built a new house next to their old one things have been improving from one generation to the next. on lama heads off to visit another family. he receives a warm welcome. you know. just on the eldest son he works in sweden but he stuck at home because of a pandemic. you are he's the one wearing

a baseball cap his mother is sad because he's keen to leave again she can't understand why what's more the youngest son wants to go to sweden to. us in lima says the government has to realize that more and more people will leave unless things improve one issue is the infrastructure the roads in the mountains are poor government says give help here's the still on the ignore the home record tradition is all well and good but what should we do if we can't sell what we make . the nearest areas 50 kilometers away and there are no government guarantees we get no government support. so it's hard to maintain tradition but. it's often easier to make money of broadband to continue farming here. the old farm buildings are still standing but the no car family has now built

a modern house mainly financed with money jameel and in sweden. the area might be beautiful but without jobs or prospects young people will continue to go away far away. there's a similar trend in japan here too it's hard to get young people excited about a life in rural areas most want to live in cities where older life is an ng money studying partying it's partly down to demographics japan has one of the oldest populations world want you to and the long life expectancy japanese men have an average of 81.4 years. women more than 87 his. entire areas of the country are aging rapidly and young people are desperate to get away or ave. 2 years ago such

as swapped the world's biggest metropolitan area for a rural backwater he was fed up with tokyo. he has hills and valleys instead of bright lights and bustling crowds. the prefecture is dubbed the japanese doll mines. satyrs mission is to help develop more cool demographically speaking it's the oldest village in the country 2 thirds of people here are over 65 that's a record to woo younger people to the village the state has agreed to pay newcomers wages and living expenses for 3 years for that sound has been prepared to help everyone out for example making she so mucky in the service station on the main thorough fare there's plenty of opportunity to chat while busy with me so she rolls and potato salad on through we were very open to him and quickly became friends

with him. and the best thing of all is that he married his girlfriend and had a baby with her here on sunday i go in there and sutter says he will continue to do his best he helps wherever he can in the kitchen on the till and in the fields the mayor has come to visit his sato's point of contact with the state sponsored program for sigal has it's quite a balancing act recruiting young people while not ignoring the older generation. at the moment there are 6 or 7 people in the village who are over 100 years old people here live for a really long time regularly examine people trust their physical and mental health we give them cognitive training to help keep them mentally i drive that's what i'm busy with at the moment. such as says the old people here are hale and hearty thanks to clean air lots of exercise and healthy food the only thing that he

doesn't like here is the amount of driving but he realizes there's no way around it at 1st sounds are used to travel around the village with his wife but she's currently living with her parents for a few months that's customary for new mothers in japan. meanwhile his having to get used to coping alone and being a long distance father to his daughter. you want your school expected. children are desperately needed here 10000 people used to live in one more call that's shrunk to 1800. people here used to and money from the land but those days are over. the young people left and the elderly stayed. it can get pretty lonely in. the state funded development co-operative has provided

sutter with the work space in the village hall he has a desk with a stable internet connection his friend and colleague tucker for me or no was born here he's one of the few who returned and is also fighting for the villages survival. those are the more you have to respect the people who've always lived here think that's important but the views of newcomers bring a fresh breath of air that they've got other connections and networks of the more that can be useful and we're grateful for every single idea but one of the 1st idea was to build a home for retirees creating jobs and a place where people can be sure that their grandparents are well looked after the 2nd idea a program to enable city kids to get to know the area and get them interested in village life. satele and auto have got plenty to discuss out on the veranda or no has built himself a new home here something that hasn't happened for years and he too has

a baby the symbol of a good future i want to find it pretty rough when we lived in yamagata we never felt that we were working for something from it for the good of a village or anything like that here it's as if everything we do benefits the village how should they put it we feel closer to things here. things are looking up for you. he has one year of taxpayers' money left after that he has to be able to stand on his own 2 feet. a prize winning flower breeder wants to help him mr ito is sato's mental satu is going to take over his business. oh it was a good idea to come here i get up in the morning and say it's going to be sunny today or it's going to rain and just looking at the weather and working out makes me happy now. the plan to rejuvenate the village is a race against time but you just saw so is the embodiment of hope in. the in the

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