holiday destinations and drowning in plastic ways. we, we like to look at the causes every year of exposure. 1000000 tons of plastic with use there. another way. after all, the environment isn't recyclable. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. 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 sun, greenhouse emissions reduced. biodiversity. how can we advance of degenerative pommy? that's what we're looking at today on eco india. hello and welcome on some of that ago. we start in the district of jo, a legion in the state of modest tra, with increasingly erratic rainfall 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 regenerated to farming methods 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 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? but it 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 them by who saw this on visits to his ancestral village. and joe had a theory 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 and notices of unknown utility. and that's what made me think that there is definitely impact of the exposure of pesticides and how to besides to these patients, which is leading to or to the disease. and because candidacy joan district is it on 400 kilometers, not of them by and home to around 2500 villages, where the main occupation is agriculture. historically the land was 4 dial with 2 rivers cutting to its landscape. some of here grew maze cotton and a range of fruits and vegetables. but they now switch their primary harvest depending on what brings maximum yield funding. he 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 environment of deterioration like the

impact on soil according to soil ex. but k be thought to the quality of the phone has dropped and it's losing components needed to carry out its most important functions in the soil out again, if one has come down to point 2 percent. so it has to be a minimum barton hope a say not barnes 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 is an opportunity to try out the new farming method. i told him, i 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 isn't my 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 had seed, earth forms and other fall again, which loses an important condition for the foot elevation process. ah, eventually what will happen is all 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. in this case, it gave to dr. turn farmer and abundant unit produce, including oranges cost apples, dumber 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 wind blowing. the 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 have a bumper harvest,

and that is only because of the practices which we are adopted, katie part and also says potential in this method beyond the fact that it is not detrimental to human health. today, this is a 4th publisher. we how our 384000000 tons production of 40 grand, but this country is not nutritional. think you have to sort to mag this gun 3 as a know trish less a good country. we how to look at to the model. like why do we say it is gender, do farming? i high take vitamin and dodge food 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 health has since improved. ah, yet all night,

not sure if we don't want to say it is important for us to move towards natural farming. and even if the produce 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 recommends and nutrients are destroyed in the plan related. you know, you know that it is our job to keep the new generation healthy. and that's why we have to move toward natural farmington are going to draw luggage. i knew last i knew sandria should be good to look on what our log large booth reaches out to as many farmers as again, particularly from those regions where there is excessive use of chemical fertilizers. everybody wants a gun and they want a financial to get it. and once we were able to show them good, this is how we do and this is our profitability. many of them started realizing visual are significantly reduce our card to be important. economic civility is

crucial. as farmers try to balance this need with their health regionally to agriculture could be one avenue that works for them. farmers in northern india still set fire to their fields every winter after harvesting, to burn the crop presidio. 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 an entrepreneur was found the weird reels crop revenue 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 crop waste 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. it's 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 of the environment. first is you know, they're still running and running will be reduced. second, as my products are ready, us as saving but environmentally friendly. so it, it, it will, as 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 you're around. that is notorious small beaks and went up. when farmers in the nearby states of len johnson ariana torch 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 on delhi street. so to thank you like smoking a cigarette, my grandmother is also living in daily and she is always gumble anyone, lear and she gone be run wild of those. india is largely a gradient country and the woods stop rice exports every year. it produces close to 500000000 tons of agricultural beast light. some types of crop residue are suitable as fargo for livestock. animals simply don't like the taste of stalks left over from rice decisions, get rid of the harvest. as a do farmers said 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 stubble, burning 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 stubborn size has increased. so that's why in all this trouble problem is that and because the farmers are now going for intensive groping, they do not leave. i would say, fiddle faddle, stubble, burning doesn't just cause air pollution. it also diminishes saw 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 spree that comes to the rescue of sport, the air, and the soil. it's called the push out decomposition. microbial solution made up of 7 different fun day. these produce enzymes to breakdown crop leftovers directly on the fields and down the waste into fertilizer and less than

a month. available as gaps use 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 piece or 23 euro since. last year the product was used by farmers across some 200000 hector's of agricultural land. so definitely the application of post are decompose that will reduce the broadening and we have seen in the last couple of years that it is a reduction in the bargaining of bagley's as you do to dan and is a farmer in commander 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 has already prevented for the next sewing season. yeah, the baker, if you look at the sphere, the we have plowed,

you will only find straws. the smallest this long ago, and once we watered the field, everything we get dissolved into the soil. yes, as proof in front of you that the stumble on the previous crop is now turned into fertilizer. always since this is the stubble from the last crop. roy? nothing will be left and has been moved, everything dissolved into the soil, eclipse me with given a lack of affordable logged on it is to dodging that feet. farmers like that 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 a gilbert shorter deferred to laser, some pharmacy they would now even be for dns m spray. a promising development in india has been to beats double burning. 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 haul plates look more and more similar to protect food security, governments of building sieboldt, billionaires. i investing millions and traditional farmers a trying to preserve the varieties they inherited from the ancestors. so how did big agriculture to 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 agriculture 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, one to national by your monsanto, was one of the giants of the business to turn seats into property and farmers into submissive customers to understand how they did it. it's important to know the history during the vietnam war one santa 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 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 blog buster hab. recite round up. it had

shelves in the 19 seventies and became the companies keep profit driver rhonda kills a lute kill so we'd ground up kills thanks to the main component cliff i said, 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 the receipts that 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 st. who wouldn't buy into that? it was like magic. 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 c system now over using a chemical, which by the way is very profitable for the company that's selling. and 100 did something else that changed a great culture forever. they patented technology behind the seats. this meant they could dictate the way farmers use them. on santa 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 one find out what the buyer is, the big supplier, the big promise behind genetically engineered crops like those from an santo, a 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 has 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 modern agriculture system created this from 30 zation for all 4 companies owning this. you get to choose what pharma girl and how and that determines what we eat, planting the same varieties also makes crops mobile. notable to draw in disease, the climate crisis is only making it worse. it's a different story with traditional seats. if you want to look for something that

sort of rate hash mighty conditions, especially now that we emphasize on climate change, you can always go back to that i've not been 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 until the every day. they're very durable. the more different seats we want, the higher the chances of winding the ones, the canada up to extreme weather. for example, in just one region and south east india, find his discovered almost 400 varieties of neglected crops species. and one thing we're 6 traditional local rice varieties, the deal better with drought, salty soil and flooding strength compared to commercial alternatives. luckily, even when traditional seats are gone from the field, they're not always gone gone. we have them in places like these,

more than $1700.00 seed banks around the world for the untapped potential of traditional feats. probably the most famous you bank point is the course looking one is this one in norway. it stores over millions did samples from across the world, and the chill of 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 and 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 can we grow food better? this time for everyone. let's move on from scenes 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 it's aiming to divide the organic individual jam as a traditional local specialty. ah dodge, adobe food sus moreland suite dawned into a truly jam. they have long dickens days, birds in time, and not a manella dis, jams mag 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 and tender beast in less than a center. nowadays, people eat chocolates that caused 100 rupees. that one euro or more, they didn't, but nothing beats the street and i the life i tree told 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 like joby, are undervalued in our country. but the nutritional benefits of these local roadside ready high orlin london little melissa romani 1st cleans the fruits, pato lee and fresh water to get rid of the dirt 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 her medicine. the fruit has been seen as a potential cure for certain ailments. ah, we're all totally american about everyone else. every food like to through sperry 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, i mean, who are see a 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. this, 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. dubarry 3 also has important ecological properties. it supports birds, squeals, and dia that feed on the fruits and shelter in its shade. only the lion, some people now tend to look down on their cultural routes and get get either way by fancied i'd fought in chocolate, where they are. those who are still fond of this gem because they have enjoyed it since childhood are being lying. salbert lucon malice over to manito 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 on

jam packard spar date. we have had to cut production accordingly and enter the set of i will mode off business navea data. the jammed sheets are still sold in bite sized packages back me badly affordable did at home. that day will 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 and to work with and balance over money, hopes to be at out 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

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