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the dash 5 as the house says, plant 5 is the place of plastic bags. small go to a website or out you tube channels i paid was a little have more useful. you could fix that. they were the ones that are in charlotte. the currently more people than ever on the world wide in such a base in life on the bus. and so it does have committed to actually find out about rubinez story info, migraines. the
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bottom are started cultivating duty at the age of 12, in those days of jude was an important crop here of the, this is what i've done. it was the thing, jude cultivation became less important. rice was the priority and the focus shifted from ju, just the plastic device. it'd be that that could be about to change a size. and are you a cons?
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cultivate or fibers that could make the world a better place. or you've has believed in this possibility ever since his doctor told him that you could be turned into a material that feels and behaves like plastic. but it's environmentally friendly. i read an article on the back. it is invented out by on, by love a c scientists. it is a bio di, good to biochem, plastic the are you and his uncle, a fast farm, the natural fibre, according to a century. so tradition. could this painstaking process provide the fiber of the future, the northern bangladesh book or district 6 o'clock in the morning and early started to
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avoid the summer heat. yesterday, temperatures reached 45 degrees celsius a fast, so this due to march. now it's harvest time the what the heavy at the end of the been galley months of to a true. we so the see that i saw 4 months later in the month of chart. we harvest that how much had, can't we then planned other crops on the same soil, such as over genes or potato? what as your billing affordable, high on the one hand, you're going to go ahead. of the 5100 is inquiry double how to use dried, jude sticks for many purposes. they bring in the most money. we use them as climbing aids and vegetable seasons vase more for the walls of houses today. however, this is becoming obsolete as bricks are used instead of jute,
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bangladesh as a small country, but it's farmers count among the world's largest dude. producers of foss lives in the village of his lee he is one of the wealthier people in the village. his annual income, he says, is the equivalent of 5000 euros. the sauce has 4 sons or at this time teddy guy,
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after one is also a farmer and the other one is a driver. one is living in malaysia as a migrant worker, and the other is an engineer. i am 75 years old working life. well, when i 1st was young, the slogan used to now plastic handmade and bangladesh was popular in parts of europe. but if i says he's never heard of it, the in the 1980s, the tooth back from bangladesh became a symbol. that's the environmental movement. back then it was known as a scratch you resilient natural material. used to to not plastic was a rallying cry. now the fight against plastic this more urgent than ever. in the village of his lee scrap metal and plastic are collected for recycling. the people are paid and edible, not due to eventually replaced plastic.
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who are the people who cultivate the plants? now what role does dude play for them? who have overall, jude cultivation has advantages. we hardly earned anything from rice this year, but we still grow rice for our own consumption. and we see the rice straw to the cadillac. c c the, the price farmers receive for jude, it's up to, it's considerably some years proceeds from sales fail to cover production costs.
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the government is trying to counteract this economic issue a problem. you just take a partnership with the ugly and i'm going to on the market price is high right now and i'm farmers are interested again. and we want to support them a 5 digit code where we issues are located in the current season. our department has provided them with seed and fertilize are free of charge and no h was this creates incentive. the farmers have to invest less from others and can make a bigger profit. it kept the number of cds of these tests. what are some of the lot of issues i'm to leave. my name is julie. i'm working as an assistant officer at the department of agriculture extension. i've got totally vocal row. isn't that isn't the data. okay. yeah,
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that definitely the fiber feels thick and strong. it will be a good, you know, obviously the foreigners that hold on resist the, the harvested to stocks are left to lie in the field for 3 days until all the leaves have fallen off. what follows is the unpleasant part. the green starks must rot the it's the musty water attracts insects and bacteria that are good for the jute and help the fermentation of the plant. but it's bad for human skin and causes itching says
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a fast today it is bearable and says a fast he's used to it anyway. other challenges are more daunting. not move on the box. that's the fact that all could you repeat it? one of the i like round you, especially the dude sticks, they sell very well and don't require much work on, you know, but when it's too dry we have a problem rocking the green due to sticks. in the past it was easier, we used to do it everywhere in water holes and rivers. there is a river nearby, but now it doesn't have enough water. so now we use puns that are normally used for fish farming, and i have a pond close to all you upon to tell me how to do it on climate change is making everything harder. extreme weather conditions are
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disrupting ecosystems throughout south asia says totally. and dude, farmers feel the effects for us tend thoughts. i said i'm on the to the money to wash much you. this is the my ancestors already knew that we have very little me soil here. just kind of follow a model who made it only needs a little reading to retain moisture, mazda, of all the parking lot of on sunday. so i'm going to, did you plan to not survive more than 10 days without rain world is in for bar s market. that type of soil is we are here behind the year. it rains fairly reliably, every $15.00 to $30.00 days in summer, which is developing. uh so our judgment is not damaged. the models, other beautiful monthly. i wanted to come this cool unlike cotton or rice,
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which need constant water to does not require artificial irrigation. i thought says that he'd never heard of a buyer degradable plastic like material made from to it until i you've stopped or told him about it. he uses a conventional plastic see to protect his plants. the it is that the well i don't i did not. i put the plastic sheet on top to prevent
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the mud from getting in and sticking to the fibers. depending on the quality of the fibers, the jude has to soak and water for 12 to 15 days so that it starts to rock. if the plant was already very ripe, when it was harvested, i can take it out again after just 8 to 10 days, but i saw not going to have them of the in a youth's pond right next door. the jude sticks are almost ready. okay, that was the, the, the, i see the over at the overtime. the fibers can be removed from the stand by applying light pressure. but this one isn't ready yet. i still have to press too hard that, that will clear. no, it's not think about the kind of set function that i think it will take another 4
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or 5 days in his li, are you up, is known as the model farmer. he grows everything from oranges to to and this family makes him proud. his daughter tia hopes to go to university in my country, people things, pardon me, use the a, made a team not to the female to do this. and i want to start a study that how i live in and abroad. come to the, the outside of the country, a t o would not want to become a dude farmer. even if she could do it. now the do try me is not, not they have these people, so it'd be far much those guys would do. because the dial me is by my that jude me
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is, are all so data onto the dale dante, any buyers to buy san diego, do so many people outside of leave, the guards with juice and cds. the chart is all scan it is they want us to do, so i'll watch to, oh, i see by the fibers. those charges of pin is people out of the go is oh yes, goodness ends to building the building the house. yeah. so construction moves, factories, do used to be very important for bangladesh says that the pulling out of bank note a bit because the, the symbols, the symbols, the farmer, our god is the farmer of separate fiver from the jews. and the fast corey. they have separate the 2, and it is our national growth, so you know,
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so then not has the same symbolize this t. so i beat for you. the do is type a color who that is the, that these wash from the borrower that, that is golden color, golden, should show natalie as to the volume of calls. so natalie asked that is golden, private. and it is. so it is a, it is our, the national across because is that we exports the other countries and we get dollars to the car and see the, until the middle of the 20th century. jude was the world's most important tech style fiber after cotton. to this day, most of the worlds do production still comes from this region.
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louisville soil. ready a climate that is humid and hot. 6 6 2 jude has been harvested in process tier for centuries. the british colonial rulers took the 2 prone here and sold it all over the world. the highest quality fibers have a golden color. these are set to grow best new rivers. that's why many dude farmers live by rivers or in the middle of rivers, an island called chars. the char bye to allies in the middle of the juno river, which originates in the himalayas as the from a put try river the . i'm you notice it's
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a jude farmer here. the lie. hey brother. did you also plant the season? no, no, not this year. i'm. i don't. i love life on the island. we bought it. but i live on the mainland because of the brothers and goons. every day i come back here in the morning and believe in the evening. i loved the nature here, our ears, fresh and common look to however, there's so much to do on the island. so many opportunities on the mainland. i have new land and nothing to work. when i go to the river pirates. that's what i mean. what caused the people who attacked and seriously injured his
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brother? i've got he shows us the scars from the knife glance. he tells us that the pirates stole his cow is it is all over the crime is not the only thing that makes life hard on the chars. legally icehouse level or so ago. yeah. as far as the outside of my c id, it must be the rainy season that floods over twice. i go as i so we move the coast to the mainland on boots. we do very well, but for him to run this in 2 or 3 days, everything here is under water. what sorry about that. so it's all over. it was then we came up to the tin roof of the house that i'm i'm lia wooden planks don't. let's have to so if you, we just and live up there thing it, we're going to shoot, i think it was all over the booked. i'd be actually, if he seems to be volume or the date there for him is take a big is subject to so, so what i'm
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a landlord i mean, nor shows how high the watch of reached in recent years. how long i was. i'm charged even disappeared. completely for a time $200.00 people live on this river island without electricity or solid ground under their feet. their times are resilient to they can withstand flooding for a good 2 weeks. but even the robust do times have their limits. who is the cause? the reason why they're hard to believe, i believe i found that you back there what it is totally ruined by the, by the binding of that. but could it cause of the extreme flooding? we couldn't harvest quickly and,
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and they died of those in the flood lasted for almost 3 weeks to complete. the funding, i believe is in there by the, by the but everything was right. but i've heard that there are new fiber, the financing financial good. the lose of the shop though, and the water comes on the plan trimmings under water for too long to clear. turns black around. no, i then ogden is new. good for more. i got to think of the problems that gives you the diagnosis of only the golden. shimmering fibers are really worth it and nothing say about them. like, i don't know a lot because i get the, even if the plants are only half submerged with walter, how satisfied the fibers that come out of low quality? that'd be higher, but we get a lower price on the market. right? because they are just colored or even black or not as of dollars have all the numbers you i to
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prevent this dude. farmers on the chars have devised a system that, i mean with this proud of leaving the island is not an option. they have nothing on the mainland. the river is both a curse and a blessing for the 2 plants to watch your noise just then with the minerals, but threatens them with much. no, due to finding me, i live on the river. walter is murphy, the stream carries on most of the soil and clean the substances stick to the jude fibers degreed in quality and causing the jews to black in good. however, if the river washers channels into a pond or a canal with the water is clear and fresh, i know that you trimmings and damage plots and retains its golden color. so they have created are just visual canals and water holes. the
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if i didn't know the, they got to in the bottle. this is walter that comes from the river by the all the impurities in the mouth of central to the bottom of the water hole with the bundle, but it got more, lots of the water is clear. and that's how you can still get golden color is the basis of 5 long drop out though. otherwise, there's no chance of getting good quality fibers are low yet another problem is impacting the by to river island to low pressure the if there's too much plastic around, then harms the crumbs. so we gather it and burn it. that solves the problems, are plastic. the 2, no people want to use less plastic bag by this help because we have already in the past batch are made of june most now we're going back to jude shopping back sacks,
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etc. people are fed up with plastic. that tough, one of the 200 kilometers downstream. there are people who want to solve the plastic problem with the house of 2 in the capital duyka scientists are working on their show nally back project translating as the golden back. it looks and feels like a plastic bag, but it's made from cellulose, derived from cute if the invention of bangladesh, the scientists, dr. mubarak, i'm a con protective suits and mass have also been produced using this new bio plastic
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. the main raw material is dried dude. fibers then we find dissenters because the main ingredient of this one going to be, he said it was this the maid just sent loose from booking for the the extra thing that 3 extra 10. we have to set up the temperature ratio and time for the poor direction, and then we own these types of some of these are the exact formula. it's a secret and says doctor con. additionally, bag has suffered some setbacks. it was just about to go into mass production when the co depend on make it. the sewing
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bags from this to polymer is also still a problem. the producers don't have access to the right machines using dude for fiber reinforce compas. this has already been proven to work. dr. con has been experimenting with the material for years. it's due to reinforce polymer mixture. also has a name to to do things is accomplish it met you. so that is a good for the bottom of this now. and the trends and gentleman in as, as your lives in assist and then also data making some boss with the flex fiber inputs, accomplish it to the appropriate feel. uh, flux is better than to condense some extra, but at flux, the production of plus very limited in some countries and the prices to time support and try to done that to do sometimes it's, i just have a good product applies to say about 10 times higher than the 2. so in that case,
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juke is the partridge and the candidate for making the com project the i have to have the center says the mine the destination button. i want to go there, selected the distribution. so lastly, i want to see why i'm using 12. why? because the truth is really incredible. because it wanted 70 percent centers. you cannot find any d or across in all of them was waste content. 71. there are some plans, but it's not plenty. it's not kind of give it to anybody, but to is this susan of corruption bundle with dish?
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so it is the 100 visiting time. use 110 days on the other. one creek on kentucky person centers on their buddies. but to dick's, going to compete in yes, commit to the this is the last the policy so he can see the federal de barney this are little bit. it's a just like, you know, victor here. this is the can proceed. and me did prove a bad,
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they gave me this isn't necessarily product this, this is as it sounds like the perfect fiber. so why hasn't the environmentally friendly juke revolution happened by now? and what does the government which commission this finality bad experiments make of this? we ask for homage applewood cullum at the ministry of tech styles and jude. this absolutely mobile idea and the mobile home la counties working on that. you're willing to do know any already talked to him. but the, the, some of you should actually, uh, the need to be addressed before waiting for the most production kind of, uh, uh, the costing things the other cool thing, of course, the whole list actually costs that is one issue. um, because people know,
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get actually plastic backs up only thing big, big, stupid, almost a low cost. so you got, there is 11 issue actually there is this the company. so we'd be this plus people to put the thing back, go into some pretty good product. but the plastic community is very, very strong. keep on pipe dealers dollars business every year for the single us shopping back. so they are not easily allow you to enter into more plastics, an industry that is blocking jude farmers expansion and increasingly jeopardizing their very existence because the weekly meeting of the dude farmers of history 2 of the sizes
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brothers are also here, states on what they tell us that plastic causes a lot of damage to their crops. somebody might have done, but i don't think they've got a or this plastic is very harmful, though. when it burns, like sticky, dangerous residues remain in the soil, due to on the other hand decomposes easily and it fertilizes the soil. plastic takes years to decompose. and when we planned rice, it no longer grows well if the soil is pointing to a 100 because the high log enough, they would be glad to grow more dude and does produce more natural fibers. but conditions have to improve. many people including i ups, uncle, high, dar are unhappy this quote for you didn't have a memory defied will it? that's what we want. we also think about it all the time. jude is really profitable, but we simply don't have any more water holes where we can leave the stocks to rocks. and i mean, it's a real crisis. i got them on the table tight. there are so many things we could do
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that i knew i'm not hardwood, they might have but i bet i'm going to go as i did. i did it as a whole in love. but i need to do that. i was struggling to, we used to have more of them, they didn't lose the know they were leased by the government to people who are farming fish in the country by me. so it kind of mazda of near and also low to plan of charge you there. you're still going to be sure to, to run. it must cut out wherever there is water upon the dishes canals. it is, it was a lot to know. they are all use for fish farm and ready to go to the i got the, the, our hands are tied on while you're doing that. coming up is that have mazda? tasha johnson, how much would it make to go to that's why they have created their own artificial parents. these experienced farmers make the hard work look easy, of having rubbed, mineral oil on his body before getting into the sinking water to relieve the
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itching i loosened institute fibers by hitting the stems, the law. and this is how you waiting to top lock because we'll still go to lou. will got a big deal. in addition, i don't like the whole so it was a cultivation process as tyran shoot has many benefit. when it is young, we can each, once you've extracted the fibers,
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we make the money from it. it was used right? you sticks us fire, we're done with a gelani's developer. this makes up for the hard labor costs through allowance, even though just contribution is painful when it brings us lots of benefits back on with it. it will kind of like when do is still very young. it's leaves are used in cooking and are very healthy. are you ps, wife alo says, so now she would talk show these a green vegetables are full of vitamins healthy i mean i just gently as ensure that we build up our immune system, him b the
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part that some of them have good. what about the think if i be what the, what am i gonna love? hello. so no price on the vehicle is the high thoughts that dips carlos, jute has changed our luck since it's currently being sold as a good market price. i should do. i'm at the bottom down and costs less to produce compared with other products. for the initial volume, i see that we can recover the production expenses by selling the dried stock. so look at one bottle it the next to to be shut up that gosh. so if i wrote you to the field to because i can earn 2 and a half times more than what i would earn with rice is for going to do nama, the cool. what the, that's why you cultivation is a profitable crop for us farmers. back on it, the size of the
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it takes 3 days for the 2 bundles to try. and the son, are you buying a fast then sell them to wholesalers who picked them up directly in his late the to sell there to too many farmers travel to the small town i've shown that toilet. it's one of the largest due to markets in the region. the highest price for a killer to today is a t tucker. they say that's about 3 quarters of a dollar. 6677, count slowly. wholesalers buy
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to then deliver it to the mills or a boss. what about the hey we have to make 5 kilo's less. there are 3 categories of june. first, the 2nd and 3rd rate quality that determines the price i pay. i buy a good quality duty at a high price medium and the model, but this is medium quality by giving me the good one. and then look at that as low quality a high quality here 1st class, the best a defense type. everything was okay. or does it have night over vertically, a clean, soft, smooth, vertically at other than these think this one is rough, very different. it's from the floods. well, no,
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i don't know if i need to when i say well, no. so that's out of the medical ways wholesalers often store that you'd in warehouse. it's in order to increase demand from the mills and those drive up the price. in recent years, the government has closed down several jude mounts, which were said to be unprofitable. tens of thousands were left unemployed. there are plans to modernize the industry according to the ministry, to the privately owned house on ali, to smell and folklore of sources do from all over the country and produces it in 3 ships, 24 hours a day. 7 days a week, the
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conditions are bad. the temperatures colors the from the fibers present at the body, the exports go to india. the neighboring country is the world's largest producer of 2, but they still need imports to supplement their own harvest. products include 2nd delica type cells and sometimes called the
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natural tooth fabrics may not be very soft, but they are durable and highly freezer for production, monitor mohammed drama, and tells us what the material was already being used in the 18th century in germany, in the region of present day has been one of the many pick a would put the as well no, actually the so called hash. and it goes back to germany, where soldiers, uniforms used to be made of jude out of money to this was then adopted by the british army, or we will shut the issue that there,
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and they even called the fabric ocean. how can you see that data money hits cnn, which has a good day i, i've tried to, with the over 800 companies in bangladesh now manufactured to products. and that number is growing. the more awareness of due to environmental sustainability could be created worldwide.
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global interests would really help save that, his li, farmer's separate, that's our germany, is one of the pioneers in the industrial revolution. but for his office, they were to import jukes from our country, from cosign deals with a governmental to go to the water, we could produce more of the golden fiber and supply it. and i mean, even though she forgot to come out and spirals to harvest more and it back to and a lot of farmers would come forward, cultivate much use and try to get us up as a depth of 2 people on the go to the water. found out what a should to park though we do. the main challenge, i think is the price fluctuation. there is no certainty compelling. if the government put a system in place to guarantee that it would by the to, to not as it already does with rice have to do, then i think this would mitigate the risk of being charged for the conduct of it did. they did show goldman duncan debt the back of it. the only issue saelens ticket being asked about will use to to not plastic, make
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a come back. the history farmers hope so, but it's up to others to make it happen. until then, a thoughts will continue farming as best he can today he finds himself at the market in the evening. when i get a good harvest and earn a good amount of money, i buy suites for the children at home. i say to myself, eat more, don't think about money today. we're not pushing away with the harvest. that brings in the most money makes me the happiest, whatever. when i sell my harvest at the market, i forget all the hard work and it motivates me to keep working kindly with them. and then i'm even happy. i don't work or water level. the,
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