watching on lunch with me, my family is holiday destinations and drowning in plastic waste line at the courses every year. europe, exclusively 1000000 tons of plastic with. is there another way? after all the employment isn't to recyclable. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines, ah, ah, ah, for thousands of years we humans have made a living from what we cultivate on our fields and what we harvest on our fruit and

vegetable plantations. however intensive agriculture, when use has negative consequences for the climate will for television of the song, greenhouse emissions, reduced. biodiversity. how can be advance of degenerated to farming? that's what we're looking at toni on eco, india. hello and welcome. i'm son with that. we start in the district of jo, a legion in the state of my rush, tra, with increasingly erratic, green fall and poor soil quality. years of intensive farming and poor irrigation methods have also led to a steady degradation of soil, which has impacted the livelihoods of local farmers. this prompted one environmentalist to try out other regenerative farming methods adapted to the specific needs of the veteran. the me, shandrika bartell is

a cotton farmer from jello gone district. 3 years ago he fell sick and even after repeated trips to the hospital, his health didn't improve. aligning body, i started coughing a lot and would gordon, especially in the night i was diagnosed with pneumonia in my blood test. mike the at and then levels were quite high and the doctor toward me, i have a kid need to be easier. why do someone somebody into the bottle is one among many young farmers in this part of the country who develop kidney problems with no prior medical history. it wasn't clear why, but dr. sargje was a kidney specialist who saw this on visits to his ancestral village, and joe gong had a pity in 2016 when i started an outpatient clinic and gentle go. and then i realized that there were so many be people from

the region coming in, chronic notices of unknown utility. and that's what made me think that there is definitely impact off the exposure of pesticides and how besides to these patients, which is leading to or to the disease and the chronic illness. joan district is it on 400 kilometers, not of mom by and home to around 2500 villages, where the main occupation is agriculture. historically the land was full with due rivers cutting to its landscape. som of here grew may's cotton and a range of fruits and vegetables. but they now switch their primary harvest depending on what brings maximum yield. farming here has become intensive driven by cash crops. and so chemicals of had to become an important part of the mix. and this is what dr. le, finding leads to

a number of health conditions as well as environmental deterioration, like the impact on soil, according to soil experts, k be part of the quality of the soil has dropped, and it's losing components needed to carry out its most important functions. in delgado, the soil are gonna carbon has gone down to wine, doper st. so it has to be a minimum barton hope to say not a point zone, but it's not minimum one percent. katie thought it was conducted by our booth who was determined to change things in his village. he had inherited his father field and saw this as an opportunity to try out the new farming method. i told him, guy want this to be completely chemical. what can you do for me? you said, yes, we can produce fertilizers on the side just next to the blood. and, but i don't him, how can we do this? he says, yes, that is, i'm a 3rd together and they started working on regenerative agriculture. a method of

farming and harmony with nature that has 4 basic principles. one of them is going a 2nd crop right next to the main one. this is called a cover crop and it's acts as a natural fertilizer. the roots of these crop had seed earthworms, and other soil, again, which loses an important condition for the foot lies ation process. ah, eventually what will happen is all this we're doing seeing will eventually get be composed by what we call as a geo chemical breakdown. and this actually provides nutrients to design your soil fertility, ambrose and your productivity actually goes up, might be fours then your actual chemical for me. and what you get is this dotted sign, which is a very, very efficient government. so this is the conversion of the electrochemical energy

into this sticky substance in design, which last 4 may be decades is a very, very strong indicator of soul fertility. this method does have criticisms, including a lack of long term studies and lower. in this case, it gave to the doctor on sama, an abundant yield of produce, including oranges, cassette up of delmari. ginger and papaya usually the custard apple. ah, non good afternoon sibling gusted up and usually flowers her at home of 40 years in a traditionally grown field. but what happened to you? it was completely mind blowing the we started getting the flowers that 6 months and her video, obviously we wanted the blonde to grow and we didn't want the, the stress of fruiting. but at the weird v. now her to bumper harvest and that

is only because of the practices which were adopted. k b parted also sees potentially this method beyond the fact that it is not detrimental to human hair. today this country is a ford patricia and we how our 384000000 tons production of courtney green. but this country is not new. no secular sort to mag this country as a no. trish as a good country we how to look at to the model. like why do we say it is gender, do farming, high tech, vitamin dodge to is not taking his learning beyond his phone and talking to other families. and joe, go about the advantages of regenerative techniques. one of the 1st people he was able to convince was gender the con button, whose health has since improved ah,

yet all night. not sure. if you don't want to say it is important for us to move towards natural farming. and even if the preview is not as much, we are responsible for feeding the future generation. and it's important we grow chemical freeport. when we use the specified, the britain and nutrients are destroyed in the plan and elated. you know, joe, that it is our job to keep the new generation hell be and that by we have to move towards natural farming. it's not going to draw like i knew last, sandria should be going to look on what our log money dodge booth reaches out to as many farmers as we can. but dickie lee from those regions where there is excessive use of chemical fertilizers. everybody, once again it be, they want a financial that got it. and once we were able to show them gave, this is how we do and this is proffered ability. many of them started realizing gay visual significantly reduce or to be in acknowledging stability is crucial as

foremost try to balance this need with the help. regenerate of agriculture could be one avenue that works for them. farmers in northern india still set fire to their fields every winter after house thing to burn the crop press to do. this ancient practice is the easiest way to clear the fields for new crops. however, it leads to massive air pollution and it's a waste of resources we visited and entrepreneur who's found a way to reuse crop residue by processing it into sustainable products. ah, the handy girl, these women are leaving, may look ordinary. but the material they're using is the subject of much contention in india. it's cropped ways that most farmers burn to get rid of the emissions contribute to dia, seasonal evolution across a wide swath of the countries. not this initiative in the city of bonnie but

sources harvest residue from local farms and to run by designer irish human done. she sees crops double as a resource that can be used to make decorative objects and help take the pressure off the environment. first is, you know, they're still running and no binding will be reduced. second, as my products are ready, us as david, but environmental cheney so it, it, it will eyes. i said it will buy a d, v, then composed of us. so there would be no need for dirty cycling off in the indian capital is 200 kilometers away. though vehicles an industry contribute to bad air quality, all your round. that is notorious smog beaks and went up when farmers in the nearby states of lin job and hannah dodged their fields to cure them for the next sewing season. toxic smoke from stubble, burning gets trapped in the atmosphere, threatening the health of hundreds of millions of people in the region of smoking

they got even if you don't smoke, if you're out on delhi street. so to thank you like smoking your cigarettes, my grandmother is also living in daily and she is always gumble, anyone, lear and she, gandhi, when go out of those, india is a largely agreed in country and the woods top rice exports every year. it produces close to 500000000 tons of agricultural waste light. some types of crop residue are suitable as fargo for lifestyle. animals simply don't like the taste of stalks left over from dryscal decisions, get rid of the harvest residue. farmers set an estimated $22000000.00 tons of buddies, doubling every year. the indian agricultural research institute and delhi has been looking for ways to tackle the problem of stubborn learning. a problem it's head of microbiology says,

has mounted over the past decade. as thing was done manually, so the stumble portion which was left below in the soil was a very small this thing. so that could be grid itself with some time. but now because it is a machine harvesting, so stumbled size has increased. so that's why you know, this struggle problem is there, and because the farmers are now going for intensive groping, they do not leave the i would say, feel fennel, stubble, burning doesn't just cause evolution. it also diminishes, saw you nutrients. heat from the fires penetrates the ground killing bacteria and fungi that are critical to soil fertility. so neil, but these research team has developed an organic spray that comes to the rescue of thought, the air and the soil. it's called the poolside decompose a microbial solution, made up of 7 different fungi. these produced enzymes to breakdown crop leftovers

directly on the fields and on the waste into fertilizer and less than a month available, as caps used, powder or solution, but the composer is activated when mixed with january water and fluff the amount needed to break down one ton of stubble costs $22.00 piece or $23.00 euro cents. last deal, the product was used by farmers across some, 200000 hector's of agricultural land. so definitely the application of course are decomposed that will reduce the bargaining. and we have seen in the last couple of years that it is a reduction in the bargaining off bagley as you do to dan and is a farmer in commander of village, a village on the outskirts of delhi. for the last 3 years, he has used the d composer to eliminate the stubble on his field. and he is on the deeper bed for the next sewing season. yeah,

i'm the baker. if you look at the sphere, the we have plowed, you will only find straws, the smallest this tiny dog. and once we watered the field, everything we get dissolved into the soil. yes is proof in front of you that the stubble on the previous crop is now turned into fertilizer. i was here. this is the stubble from the last crop roy? nothing will be left to have been with me. everything is dissolved into the soil. equip anybody? ah, given a lack of affordable logged on it is to thought that feet farmers like down and see the decomposition as a potential game changer. the delhi government is distributing the product free of charge for use on $5000.00 acres around the capitol. amid available shorter deferred to laser, some pharmacies, they would now even be for the enzyme spree a promising development in india's been to beats double bunny and the stifling pollution it causes in farming. every thing starts with the seed. these days, the market will seeds is globalized to such an extent that just

a handful of log suppliers determine which seeds i used all over the world. this has some negative effects on the environment, new to the use of chemicals, and also results in a reduced majority of crops. they give life to plants, seats. they grow into the staple crops that make up much of our diet. and they also mean a lot of cashed for some the agricultural companies that sell seats and not just seats, but also the chemicals to treat them. and the make haul plates look more and more similar to protect food security, governments of building sieboldt, billionaires. i investing 1000000 and traditional farmers are trying to preserve the varieties they inherited from the ancestors. so how did big agriculture take control of our seeds? and can we ever get them back? for thousands of years, farmers for you,

bread reserved and shared seats. but then i got a culture radically changed. in the 20th century, farmers got new machines, chemicals and lots made seats. and big companies stepped in. these major players dominate the market to be one of them had a special role in shaping modern agriculture, especially in the u. s, now owned by german will to national by your monsanto was one of the giants of the business to turn seeds into property and farmers into submissive customers to understand how they did it. it's important to know the history during the vietnam war. monsanto was one of the largest suppliers of the notorious edge and orange for the u. s. military. $50000000.00 leader is of this deadly herbicide was sprayed to fuel trees and tropical foliage that provided cover for the vehicle fighters. not only do this areas remain contaminated, millions have been poisoned by the chemical. next. monsanto turned the attention to peacetime with killing developing the blockbuster harbor site. round up,

it had shelves in the 19 seventies and became the companies keep profit driver rhonda kills a lute kill so we'd round up kil, thanks to its main component, cliff aside, but it ended up killing so well that it also killed farmers crops. so they could only sprayed before planting seats after the harvest. but what if they received that could tolerate round up that home and found who stepped into the sea business? in 1996, they rolled up round up, ready. these receipts, they were genetically modified to be immune, to gleeful st. who wouldn't buy into that? it was like magic. you talked to farmers at that number. marco elmore is an environmental historian at the higher state university to spend a decade working on this book about monsanto. weeds almost immediately began developing resistance around that and you kind of have this cycle in this

genetically engineered scene system now over using a chemical, which by the way, it's very profitable for the company that selling it. and 100 did something else that changed every culture forever. they patented technology behind the seats. this meant they could dictate the way farmers use them. monsanto created a system that they controlled by 2008 months. hunter had bought 50 international seed firms. the market power of mon fonda and similar companies was growing more and more. today. 90 percent of corn upland cotton employed in from the u. s. a. produce with patent and seat on fund ordered. the buyer is the biggest supplier. the big problem is behind genetically engineered crops like those from an santo, higher yield for farmers. but in 2016, the national academy of sciences published a 600 page dozier on the effects of g crops from the us. scientists found little

evidence that such crops actually lead to higher yields what have been going on, is the use of monsanto supposed to child cliff a site to move youth hair beside globally. this to maps of the us show the amount of round up being sprayed on the dark of the colors, the more as being used. meanwhile, what's been going down is the variety of foods on our plates. there are over 50000 edible plans in the world, but we mostly rely on june 15th corn, wheat, and the rise of the major hits. the modern cri cultural system, created this thunder. tis ational for awful companies owning this. you get to choose what pharma girl and how, and that determines what we eat, blunting the same varieties also makes crops mobile normal to draw in disease. the climate crisis is only making it worse, but it's a different story with traditional seats. if you want to look for something that

low rates hash, climatic conditions, especially now that the climate change, you can always go back to be elected. this is the medical den. she's a plan geneticist at the international crops research institute of the same eric tropics. the one thing they also do because they, they just absorb all sorts of trade in from anywhere. and so the, every day they're very durable. the more different seats we plant, the higher the chances of finding the ones that can adapt to stream whether, for example, in just one region and south east india find has discovered almost 400 varieties of neglected crops species than one been were 6 traditional local rice varieties the deal better with drought, salty soil and flooding strength compared to commercial uncertainty. luckily, even when traditional seats are gone from the field, they're not always gone gone. we have them in places like thief,

more than $1700.00 sea banks around the world for the untapped potential of traditional feats. probably the most famous you bank point is the coolest looking one. is this one in norway? it stars over millions did samples from across the world, and the chile permafrost conditions make sure this little fellows are preserved for centuries. the system works like a bank, the deposit their owns, the samples, the bank. in this case, the government of norway owns the facility. for example, brazil has thousands of seats on here. some of these seats were rescued only because indigenous communities and traditional farmers kept them there where we grow, our foot has drastically changed. if the large corporations will have benefited at the expense of everyone else, farmers have got hooked on chemicals and lost ownership of the seats and consumers miss out on so many flavors, a new trance. so it's time to ask ourselves, how can we grow food better? this time for everyone. let's move on from feeds to

a very special snack that has a long tradition in the indian state of thumb and not what is seen a decline in popularity. we met someone who wants to do something about this and is aiming to divide the organic do do jam as a traditional local specialty. ah dodge, adobe food sus moreland suite dawned into a truly jam. they have long dickens days, bugs in dumb in nato. and i like this jam smack brings back fond memories of terry who have a lower that he boy that i grew up into him better all around my school. there was shops selling the street for between 2 ent, nbc in less than a center. nowadays, people eat chocolates that cost $100.00 rupees, that one euro or more, but nothing beats the st. and either that i treat, sold in small packets. now you served by mass market suite. one small business, though is trying to keep it alive. but the company urges you regina is special

because it's very sweet, but unfortunately local fruits leg usually are undervalued in our country. but the nutritional benefits of these local roads already high or low. melissa romani 1st cleans the fruits. pato lee in fresh water to get rid of the boat and impurities than they are steamed. thieves are separated from the skin, which is ground into a fine beast. at the end, sugar and salt are added to it. ah. international medicine, the fruit has been seen as a potential cure for certain ailments. ah little orderly medic, deliberately, every shrewd leg to gooseberry and apple comes to school nutrition benefits. similarly, the ju ju be, has its own sort of advantages such as vitamin c and a healthy amino se of profile. there is still

a lack of scientific research here in india and china. there has been much more into his research on its properties, eligible of the without jane. his, i believe is all wrong. in fact, the fruits have been cultivated in china foot over a 1000 years. recent studies call them super fruits, but it's not just their nutrition values that to high. they do job 3 also has important ecological properties. it supports birds, squiggles, and dia that feed on the fruits and shelter in its shade. la la and some people now tend to look down on their cultural routes and get, get, you know, by fancied i had fought in chocolate. where there are those who are still fond of this gem because they have enjoyed it since childhood are being, lungs are. but on the lucon, malice of the money though, hopes that this will change for people and his business or not. if you bought them used to make about a 1000 rupees, or 12 euros, producing almost 15 boxes

a day. but that seems drastically. today's shopkeepers are fewer than 5 boxes of gem packets per day. we have had to cut production accordingly and enter the set of i will mode of business another year or date of the jam treats are still sold in bite sized packages that make them badly affordable. there are holes that they will find renewed popularity once more research is done on the benefits of due to be fruits in india knowledgeable, assume for the sake of argument that research proves to have for reaching the health benefits. many companies will immediately start manufacturing and selling products with ju ju, be fruit, marketing them with all the fancy names in the room with and balance of the money hopes to be at ound if and when that happens as the bridge that gap, that tradition alive, that report brings us to the end of this episode of eco, india, a reminder that we need a new mindset when it comes to agriculture and food production. remember,

regenerative farming is a fundamental aspect of climate protection. i'll leave you with that thought and see you again. next week, good bye. and thanks for watching. ah . i with

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