d, w dot com ah ah, for how who we humans have made a living from what we cultivate on our fields and what we harvest on our fruit and vegetable plantation. however intensive agriculture has negative consequences for the climate will fertilize ation of the greenhouse emissions reduced bio diversity . how can be advance degenerated? just coming. that's what we're looking at today on eco india. hello and welcome sons that we start in the district of jelly. go are region in the spirit of mirage tra, with increasingly erratic rainfall and poor quality. years of intensive farming and

poor integration methods have also led to a steady degradation of soil, which has impacted the livelihood of local families. this prompted one environmentalist to try out other regenerated to farming metals adapted to the specific needs of the region. ah ah chandler cant bodily the cotton farmer from gel gown district. 3 years ago he fell sick and even after repeated trips to the hospital, his health didn't improve. cor, galani a body, i started coughing a lot and would feel bored. especially in the night i was diagnosed with pneumonia in my blood test, my client and then levels were quite high and the doctor told me i have a kidney dizzy. why do amola someone some going to blood battle is one among many

young farmers in this part of the country who developed kidney problems with no prior medical history. it wasn't clear why, but dr. prashant dodge, put a kidney specialist from monday, who saw this on visits to his ancestral village. and joe had a theory in 2016 when i started an outpatient clinic in general. and then i realized that there were so many be people oh, from the region coming in with chronic good notices of for an unknown etiology. and that's what made me think that there is definitely impact off the exposure of pesticides and how to besides to these patients, which is leading to or to mm hm. disease and the chronic in new disease jungle district. is it on 400 kilometers? not of them. by and home to around a 1500 villages,

where the main occupation is agriculture. historically, the land was for a day, with due rivers gutting to its landscape. farm of here grew meas, caught in an, a range of fruits and vegetables. but they now switch their primary harvest depending on what brings and 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 export 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 del gum, that's why a lot of gun it carbon has gone down to widen doper se, so it has to be a minimum barton hope, but a se, not appointed zone, but attend our 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's field and saw this is an opportunity to try out the new farming method. i don't 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 what 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 color crop and it acts as a natural fertilizer. the roots of these crop head feed forms and other fall again, as of which loses the fight and 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 g o. 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 rich and carmen. 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 soil fertility. this method does have criticisms, including a lack of long term studies and lower lead. in this case, it gave to dr. turn farmer, an abundant unit produce, including oranges cost apples dome or a ginger and bio usually

the custard apple, or non grafted ceiling gusted up and usually flowers at 40 years in a traditionally grown feed. but what happened, the earth was completely mind blowing, though we started getting the flowers at 6 months and which we obviously, we wanted the blood to grow and we didn't want the stress of fruiting. but at 2 years, we now had a bumper harvest, and that is only because of the practices which we are adopting k b part. it also says potential in this method beyond the fact that it is not detrimental to human health. today in this country is afford publish, and we how our 384000000 tons production of 40 grand. but this country is not nutritional. take your time to mag this country as a new. trish does

a good country. we how to look at the model. like, why do we say it is gender, do farming and high tech, vitamin dodge, but it 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 cons button. whose hell has since improved ah, yet all night. not sure. if you don't want to say it is important for us to move toward 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 whitman's and nutrients are destroyed in the plan related to an idea that it is our job to keep the new generation healthy. and that's why we have to move towards

natural fami. now going to draw logan, i knew last sandria should be good. look on what our love money dodge booth reaches out to as many farmers as again, 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 a profitability. 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 how listing 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 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 girls, 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 sauces 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, asa tv, but environmental cheney. so 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 and industry contribute to bad air quality. all your round, that is notorious smog beaks and went up. when farmers in the nearby states when john elliana dodged their fields to clear 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 will out of those, india is largely agreed in country and the woods stopped rice exports every year. it produces close to 500000000 tons of agricultural waste light. some types of crop

residue a suitable as fargo for livestock. animals simply don't like the taste of stalks left over from dryscal decisions. get rid of the harvest as a do farmers set an estimate of $23000000.00 tons of buddies doubling every year. the indian agricultural research institute and debbie 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 can't. 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 spree that comes to the rescue of thought, the air and the soil. it's called the post decomposition. microbial solution made up of 7 different fungi. these produce enzymes to breakdown crop leftovers directly on the fields and on the waste into fertilizer and less than a month. available as gaps used powder or solution, but the composer is activated when mixed with january water and flow. the amount needed to break down one ton of stubble. costs $22.00 piece or $23.00 euro cents. loss 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 of bagley's as you do, lou dan, and is a farmer in commando village, a village on the outskirts of delhi. for the last 3 years, he has used the decomposition 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 this field, the we have plowed. you will only find straws as small as this long ago, and once we watered the fields, everything we get dissolved into the soil. yes, as 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 and had been with me. everything is dissolved into the soil equipped me with given a lack of affordable alternatives to dodging that feed. farmers like down and see the decomposition as

a potential game changer. the deli government is distributing the product free of charge for use on $5000.00 acres around the capitol. amid a global shorter to fertilizer, some pharmacy they would now even be for dns, i'm sorry. a promising development in india has been to beats double boning 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 mode i. t 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 all plates looked more and more similar to, 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, free bread reserved and shared seats. but then i got a culture radically changed. in the 20th century, farmers got new machines, chemicals and locked, 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 once on to was one of the largest suppliers of the notorious edge, an orange for the u. s. military. $50000000.00 leader is of this deadly herbicide was sprayed to kill 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 blog, buster hammer site. round up. it had shelves in the 19 seventies and became the companies keep profit driver rhonda kills the root kills we'd round up kills 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 the could

tolerate round up that home and found who stepped into the sea business? in 1996. they rolled up round up ready div receipts. they were genetically modified to be immune to gleeful sate who wouldn't buy into that? it was like magic, he 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 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. one sample 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 and floyd beach from the u. s. a. produce with patent and seat on font, the order. 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 cross 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. these 2 maps of the u. s. showed the amount of round up being sprayed on the dark of the colors, the more is 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 just 15 corn wheat and the rise of the major hits. the more than hungry cultural system created this thunder tis ational for powerful 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 we emphasize the climate change, you can always go back to be elected. this is emery. so then she's applied geneticists at the international crops research institute of the same area, tropics. the one thing they also do because they, they just absorb all sorts of over trade or land 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. and one thing we're 6 traditional local, right, right, is the deal better with drought, faulty soil and flooding strength compared to commercial turn into. 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 amp potential of traditional feats. probably the most famous bank point is the coolest looking one is this one in norway. it stores over millions sits 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 on the facility. for example,

brazil has thousands of seats on here. some of the 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 and new trends. so it's time to ask ourselves how come to 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 jewel jam as a traditional local specialty. ah dodge, adobe food sus moreland suite dawned into a truly jam. they have long dickens, these birds in time and not a manella dis,

jam smack brings back fond memories of terry who have a lower that he boy, that i grew up in co. m better all around my school. there was shops selling the street for between 2 ent, nbc in less than a center. nowadays, people eat chocolate that caused 100 rupees. that one euro or more. but nothing beats the street on either like a tree told in small packets. now you served by mass market suite. one small business though is trying to keep it alive with the company. oh, exhibit emma's special because it's very sweet. but unfortunately local fruits like joby, are undervalued in our country. but the nutritional benefits of these local roads, i already hi, orlin them a little melissa, romani 1st cleans the fruits, pato lee in fresh water to get rid of the boat and impurities. then 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. introduced to madison. the fruit has been seen as a potential cure for certain ailments. ah little, poorly american deliberately, every shrewd lector, gooseberry and apple comes with school nutrition benefits. similarly, the ju ju be, has its own set of advantages such as vitamin c and a healthy i mean, who are see 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 with okay miss, 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. was that only the lion, some people now tend to look down on their cultural routes and get get either way by fancied i had fought, fought in chocolate, where they are, those who are still fond of this gem because they have enjoyed it since childhood are being lungs are, but i'm lucon my little bit of 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 dark things domestically. today's shopkeepers order fewer than 5 boxes of gem packets per day. we have had to cut production accordingly and enter the survival mode of business. nobody or date of the jam treats are still sold in bite sized packages back me widely affordable. did our holstead daily find a new popularity once more research is done on the benefits of due to be fruits in india? knowledge assume for the sake of argument that research proves to have far 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 world. give us the wrong and balance of money hopes to be at out if and when that happens. as the bridge that gap, that tradition alive ah, 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 with

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