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the end of the governments that go crazy. so your data explain how these technologies work. so that's how they can also watch it. now, the agriculture is a strong the, especially in developing countries where climate change is also, and even in terms of i've come, i'm finally got somebody and you're all watching equal in depth as a journalist, when i travelling across the country, one of the biggest problems and the most common problem that i see are the increasing struggles of farmers and that's, that's what the declining in and yet that on or done it is that to offer
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opportunity and hope to cool within the region in india as western states. omaha dasha is one of the most droughts prone region in the country. it has also been an international headlines with a high number of pharmacies, sides that happen too. long dry spells are often a direct cause for economic distress. but for one community here, switching to a drought resistance crops, what ip has made all the difference? these concludes phones as a preaching spots of light spun from a 900 metre long silk thread. then too precious. they provide chief, a general potter with an income thoughts, a welcome new development. i'm gonna have to make no money with costs. and today
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i'm only about a $100000.00 rupees a month to look. i know there was still some clerical fields, even more of the water. my roster is traditional cotton grabbing region. but climate change is taking its toll with increasingly long periods of drought, followed by heavy rains, which destroy the hobbies, and threatened livelihood. as a result, the highest suicide rate among farm is in the last 6 months of 2022 desperation lead more than a 1000 farm is in my roster to take their own lives. the village is really the indie wood for cotton is also affected by climate change. in the past, everyone here made a living from cotton, including she about 0 possible on his family. but the plans needed not to go to. that's one of the reasons why cost them production went into decline. apologize. uh, we have to constantly spray the cotton crop we've had besides an ottoman due to the
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soil and it's just as i was on uh, it was an endless cycle of spending all across all the daily own. anything from it sealed as well stuff, but it still got caught up that got caught up in 2018 drought to destroy the harvest for the village of really it was it is often up the time tally. that's nevada. we had just been elected village chief. he's been hearing about the potential of silk reduction or every culture in india's, every culture is financially supported by a government scheme called them a ha, my gun, the national real employment guarantee act launched in 2006. it helps distressed real communities in india by helping local secure a stable income. it provides farm is with nearly 85 percent of the investments needed to set up a so rearrange unit. how did us decided to take the gamble for you?
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it's all good. i would say remain to fight us on the 1st goal was to improve financial conditions for villages next to it. so because a high yield, trump has got to monitor the value on the market. what am i going to do? it's a high demand tech style, monica, and secondly, it can be gram with very little most of what started out as an agricultural experiment has transformed into a knowledge scale. so finding operation today, nearly 600 farm is from really of switched to serve you culture. the vehicle are legal. i started out with 2 silk them, eggs this from not they've got 200 kilos of so good coons exploit when the pharma salt is part of the for a 120000 rupees. he couldn't believe it. he'd never made that kind of money from 10 acres of company funding was for boy, just 2 acres of siri culture. yeah. and a lot of money for people. that's how it started, of this, sorry coat to model that really soon started to cut shown in the light and region. a growing number of from is a now planting mulberry trees, which
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a category showed to improves the harvest. the leaves provide food for the so when the moby trees a holiday, they grow for several years. i'm inclined much less school to fund makes the my deal for this drought stricken region. according to kind of coach experts seem a how to she works closely with the farmers in myra hosta. instead of capturing you've gone keels best as i phone in you. i'm going to be renovations, so that isn't everything data because you know, so you learn more about is seeing there is all of a flaw. the danger and then uh uh, in, in getting that doesn't, doesn't, does. she's off the civic one side of it. i just hope you will be some friends. i'm of the things i use, but not bit of people's dislikes because of in your the insect is sensitive the villages around the rooming unit in really together. as soon as the non, if i have hunched each fall and i received 800004 the next 20 days,
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they feed the cat dependents with mole readings several times a day often. but the caterpillars not spinning the precious silk thread around themselves to form a kick in. just a few days later, the kings are harvested and sold the soap markets with prizes giving according to weight. many women and really also employed in the business, laptop way. now self sufficient and not dependent on others for money, even the men in the house, respect to some of this, but it's definitely boosted up confidence as women who are we. so i see a person. but there's also adult aside. critics, a many children are employed in so production, although counted us and since that's not the case, and really another criticism is that to obtain a single long thread from the cane, the law of a mustn't be a the hutch. so the set to work is heat that the gains and water to kill the lot of a, the mole retrieve all saying equal to right now the problem is that using precious
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groundwater but counted us and his team of set up several poems to collect raymore to how are you feeling? you are from farms is very important. 5, most of billing the problem for or just using them as a storage to build their own work. but i'm storing both on board and then he was it forwarded to ation. it doesn't look at all the commended, because you're going, what are the safe, which is in the or on the ground, and it is safe from the sun. but if you're feeling you're born by giving some catchment time diverting that in what the, what, what reading you are getting during the season for the form, it is what it is. a book this the silk for movie has now made quite a name for itself. that's the, the pharmacy used to have to travel a long way to the markets to sell that can choose which increased that costs so excited to get the going to good after one. yeah. what does that one quality on quantity improve? the, what we told the trade is that if you're interested in how supply does it,
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then come to our village and getting yourself to walk into the community. so today those traders come here to biologists. and i say on the farm is don't have to travel anywhere to sell it. or the highest of all is it basically portable kids that exhibit the families and really have also received financial support from the local authorities. banks that's to reluctant to then to farm. it's. ready some of the villages have now achieved a negative prosperity other than their income or even a house. ready or somebody by just giving him when he comes here. but the biggest, the chief month based on the last 5 years. i mean we haven't had any farmers in the village can box. i saw it on me because of a lot of work. when you do go game it, did you take place of opposite? believe it from the what i to think is the name of your subsidy. so if somebody me knew about the honey,
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my healthy illuminated the bees lax and my live bomb, where we can find the honey bees for all of this. and while the actually bad for the in line one to because they compete with the white bees, which is actually the species that house because of the r biodiversity. if it was likely in agriculture, honey, these can help boost the incomes or fall mazda and the productivity of the field. and that, to me, not to any nathan saying is busy inspecting his be caught, and he's, he's a specialist in environmental biotechnology. after researching qos will be diseases in germany and it is really heated onto his hometown of luck know in 2015 and the region needs him. why the numbers have been declining here for decades. without that part of nation walk, families have seen a significant drop in the heats to compensate. ready didn't think the wife of for the nation silva as to farmers by renting out honey bees. well, i've got
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a disability that my job vp could be called a lease already set up in places like movies and music fields and transport them to new fields to the migration process. like you provided most golf production these 80 kilograms, then they can increase it to a 100 kilograms by blink, keeping all the sol k. dick. nathan, think owns of housing. gotten these off the honey, be april manufacturers to collect connected in 6 livid up to $100.00 in a single ship and can make 20 trips in a single day. in the process, they move calling from plant to plant aiding the pollination of flowers, vegetables and fruits. best thing good purpose here is to support the funds. unlike why bees that benefit funds as well as biodiversity. the but for those kinds of these are generally in decline because of one main factor. so when we use best the size to kill the home for the best, we also can be useful to pass along with this in these because they directly feed
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on the plants that directly go to the uh, flaws they get, be that i picked of the pesticides so one of the major reasons is that in, across the globe, many countries have realized that in the vandals best decides which hum, it's not just humphrey fond practices that are impacting bees. climate change has altered rebel buttons disrupting seasonal connections between these and flowers. the uncertainty of the blooming season has put these on the immense stress as national statistics show in the last 25 years. india has lost more than 40 percent off. it's b stokes. this bomb was ease of tomatoes, chick bees and must have all suffered as a result regardless of how these fees are located, some 40 kilometers from loc, no, to the get by, let this lower heaters dry out unless it becomes a loan. if it sits on it, it gets more nutrients. my unit had gone down by 20 or 30 percent almost compared
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to our previous crops. this one is going great. all these flowers are doing when this blonde is full months old and is still growing tanks the honey bees. before i would run out of produce to harvest in 2 to 3 months. after loading up the threat, that best decides both to honey and why these roms all have a switch to organic farming. because while be keeping me head farmers via these head of the planet, the phone and dial 4 is the health keep other species of life. and not in desperate need of protection, find to see that everyone can help save bees. one of the very easy methods of re preservation is to increase the number of lady plans. so it's very easy for us to just approve the weeds and truly what we don't realize is that they are actually a source of funding for the bees when the means of gosh, crops on all day. so these, uh, you know, the kind of buffer of the wire for the,
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we these, and we need, these are the, was in more numbers. so they're more likely to sustain the vagaries of nature. and they're more likely to try even as long as we play, they become a very, very good source of commit to it and fall in for the be. so i didn't need those play, essentially drew in feeding, a growing population on maintaining bio diversity, which we really need to be has even come to represent the survival of the human species. and protection gives us and the bees, our best shot foster son, dimensions of life. it is essential for the creation of dna. and it is also a major component in commercial. fletcher license, the only problem is the us supply of phosphorus is not unlimited. i'm more than 2 thirds of the was it is all phosphate truck are located in a disputed conflict storage region in africa. in such
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a diet see scenario our reporter has explored once the solution which is available to all of us. what's one of those dna and seats? 8000000000 people. phosphorus, it's an essential element that sustains all life on earth. it's also in your p one that later. but the vast majority of it goes into making fertilizer. why? because without it, we wouldn't be able to grow no food. the problem is that there's a finite amount and roughly 70 percent of that comes from just one place. the bigger problem is that we're wasting most of what's already there. every individual is just throwing away it left the bread every day. for countries like india, which is 90 percent dependent on imports, dwindling access could be alarming. plus, phosphorus is also causing some massive l g issues. but if the world's fruit security depends on it, what can we do about the potential shortage? what alternatives do we have and could around p save us? thanks to a german scientist boiling hundreds of gallons of urine in 1669,
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we found phosphorus, the 15th element, and the periodic table fantastic, is trying to find out how to make anyway. what is phosphorus? all organisms need fast, 10 essential nutrients by the central composite of life. this is barbara came out and she's a renowned soil scientist based and says, gosh one canada, that's part of our dna. it's part of our salvas consumer. us let that's. it's part of our, our and i today roughly 80 percent of the world's phosphorus is used for agriculture because it's a structural component of cells. it's a central for cell division and plant development. without enough of it, plants are stunted and don't yield as much between increasingly using these chemical fertilizers on farms since the post world war 2 period. together with crop engineering, it's for the green revolution. this, the massive increases in crop yields, especially in the global south and places like india and nice in 1611 production
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was like the animal bait, the medium tens, nasty or lovely next to production which step 3 hundreds of themed into sedation at the atari a. as a scientist of the indian institute of social science, definitely, they give this credit to fuck laser applications because before it was there was no knowledge about the world wide fertilizer use increased 6 times from 1960 to 2000. so where do we get all of it from? stay answer that question. we 1st need to show you the world's longest conveyor belt system, which can be seen from space. it's transporting the raw material phosphate rock from the blue chrome line across the western sahara desert. roughly 70 percent of the growth reserves are in the western sahara, heavily disputed territory currently controlled by morocco, which the un size has been unlawfully occupying the area rubble. army has been fighting for its independence. the largest preserves are spread across north africa,
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followed by china, presented south africa and saudi arabia. less than 20 percent of the phosphorus using agriculture actually ends up in the food we eat. that's partly because phosphate fertilizer is new tori. sweet. inefficient defines easily with other minerals in the soil, which makes it unavailable for the cloud, but, and they kept $950.00 of costs with us. a lot of these is going to get on the didn't get some, but people to get us to water body. but maybe 80 percent of that, but if it does it be different and swipe, that's why the industry solution is to just chuck more on the soil. faster, suppress, relatively cheap, adding a bit as good as that marble guarantee profits. this accumulative phosphorus is comm legacy phosphate. how much phosphorus as lost in the soil also depends on the cell to set it like an wait 5 minutes and it will bind to iron and aluminum to alkaline it will react in calcium. but this has consequences. the use of chemical fertilizers increases to run off of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus into
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bodies, water, at least to utah vacation, which cause of oxygen in the water. it also causes mazda of elk glands, which can be toxic and producers, wondering nothing when they die. and it's not just a place from agriculture, and that's rapid foss versus everywhere in our food or tap water. so if we consume a lot of phosphorus, then that means essentially what's coming out is the same. this is jonathan a call. she's a researcher at the swedish university of agricultural sciences and also sorta the company that turns urine and seizes into fertilizer. one out of 10 people are like that and then and that's of nutrients that are in your end as enough to grow as 500 grams of weight. so basically it means you're, you're and you can be grow. you can be producing a loaf of bread every day. she and her colleagues designed a system that essentially boils down our excreta and routines as nutrients. how to
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the urine diverting toilet? the solution is starting to gain traction in the west. but the upside is that it's particularly adoptable for places that don't have plumbing since it doesn't need water. unfortunately, household p is just a small fraction of all the nutritious waste on earth. there's also phosphorus and sludge and industrial waste water, not to mention the newer from livestock and dairy farming. what are the most scalable solutions is to figure out how to get all of it out and reuse it right now . so treatment plans, it's to get the water cleaner, get it. we're not looking at it as a extracting way as our sewer and i think year is mine and these are 6. but why not? the industry is still figuring out how to improve existing technology is to make large scale removal economically viable. there's also been advanced funds and the methods of extracting fos for us from animal manure. there's no shortage of technologies. it's just right now, it's still more cost effective to ship box and then it is to try to get it from all
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these other sources. we can also start earlier in the process and how plants absorb more. the phosphorus, recent research has shown that certain types of fund guy induct syria, could be used in the future to improve crossfield and soil health. in fine j did. these are actually a group of funds, a data lakes. very good, the fox, but a scavenger. you've been sick and it's been that high cm's cabbage of uh for those from india plants who cannot needs the scientists are still researching how these microbes could be used for large scale farming. however, transitioning to such organic agriculture takes time and could result in your losses or risk. farmers are hesitant to take. the legislation could help me with the market along the recently legalize the sale of phosphorus recovered from sledges, fertilizer, and is working on laws that will require more. fos for us to be removed from waste water, especially is actually quite easy to recycle. the government of the 2nd says, hey, you have to recycle 15 percent of the costs 1st. that then you're wastewater. and
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then innovations finally have a chance to come to light and start the implement. frankly, the cost of fitness would drive a lot of innovation when it was cheap. don valley that i am optimistic, kept at that. maybe i'm just optimistic in general, but space, but the technician that fits there were talking about it may be able to that new revolution. see this bernetta? well, the plan that is, comes from contains water quality text. i agreed fiber, which was legal to waste. but what good can come out of this waste bible use it all . however, there is a community of marginalized women in so many i do is monday, the 6th. we're making beautiful, fashionable items out of this waste fiber, johns plumbing, but non of fiber into boss gets them in here in the village of the goods that i'm
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in my day in southern india. i thinking of materials once considered waste. i'm done and get into something they can use a lot of them in school today to say we started working here after her husband was imprisoned, the job offered her and her children, a lifeline. i didn't put down that a more than a week after the incident. i was alone. i tuned for a few days. dave and preventative helped me during that time. if you'd let me know how i loved it. eventually the day by day my kids are getting older lady same and i didn't know, don't bring nobody can, we can in that particular situation and i came to this job and then a lot of got into this in the city. i'm and what is the salary and the women i'm looking at the model, the international, the center for aut amico. they produce over 20 varieties of boss goods and more than 50 other types of handicrafts. the project aims to empower widows and single women, providing them with book, but serves as
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a source of monthly income for them. the initiative was founded by jobs. he has been leading it for almost 6 years and lived in nevada. when i was a kid, i used to give me a gift to my friends. i would get everything from trees including raises and create a small homes and other items. i received a positive feedback from my friends, but i believe it was during that time that i realized i'm not going from interest, rudy. with this realization that need to come to them making things out of them. naturally. medina has been raised by the obviously the in the india is the was largest producer of the non us growing more than $30000000.00 tons of the food every year in summer, not to the 4th largest, but not agreeing states around 10000000 tons of waste is produced but not least, for the mika project comes from pharma 50. he cultivates a fees of what on 2000 banana trees, the growth cycle of the plants spawns approximately one year. within 10 months the
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trees bear fruit and often haul, lifting the i've got down to make we, for the next crops of the let me see any of the was due to over the summer. but recently we haven't started using it for multiple purposes. in particular, we use it yet as it all material meetings, basket. this has been very useful for us quite a bit of what on the mika boss, goods and other products. i mostly exploded abroad to countries like written on the usa. the women make around 8 to 10 boss gets every day. they also around 2000 a piece just for which went to utilize the room and get around $150.00 the fees on $1.00 udall $6540.00. it might not sound like much, but the see, the income brings them comfort. and there are also other benefits what not a lot of, i'm going to find every women working here faces how to spend and trauma issues
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from their families. these tries to give them hope for financial independence and the chance to support their children when we come together and work as a team board of all up being seems to fade away and with them now. and the best thing stated that he had the women say nothing from nature is based it the believe their work benefits the environment. but more importantly for sylvie, it also brings her closer to her dream to empower women, just like how to support themselves and their families. i would love to get my hands on a hand bag made out of, but i don't know if i was who would have thought, what did his ideas like these that actually only making the decisions to the farmers, to us. i'm to the planet, but you let me know what did you like the most about today's episode, and what would you like to see more of? i will see you soon until then take a good bye. none of us. gosh, the,
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