tv The Golden Fiber Deutsche Welle March 29, 2024 10:15am-11:01am CET
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a so called safe spot of signals that are already suffering from an advocate must be delivered without today. that's also now coming up next after the break documentary series presents the golden fiber, namely juice, thrown in bundle dish that could provide an old comic replacement for plastic bags and british ben did you want me to pull in what it's in just a 100 days my parents because of my family. what cute. how was this age? i'm on a journey to find out about the russo the 19 there to put you on the site, but they expect to see. rhonda, my name is some way to ship me there. i'm assuming we shaving history out documentary stuff, april 6th on dw, the
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bob and our started cultivating duty at the age of 12, in those days due to was an important crop here of the, this is what i've done it. jude cultivation became less important. rice was the priority and the focus shifted from ju, just the plastic. as i said, the that that could be about to change a size. and are you a cons? 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
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could be turned into a material that feels to be hayes like plastic. but it's environmentally friendly, easy to add to get along. to not be back. it is invented out by on, by love a see scientists. it is a bio d good to buy a good plastic the are use and his uncle of us farm the natural fibers according to century. so tradition for this painstaking process provide the fiber of the future, the northern bangladesh book or district 6 o'clock in the morning. an early start to 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
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at the end of the been galley month of to a true. we so the see that a 2 or 4 months later in a month of a chart we harvest that kind of my head. can we then planned other crops on the same soil, such as over genes or potato? what as they will know, part of the high on the one hand, they're going to go to of the buy board is equity double, how to use dried, jude sticks for many purposes. they bring in the most money. we use them as climbing aids, investable seasons, the more for the walls of houses today. however, this is becoming obsolete as bricks are used. instead of jute that i have a lot of bangladesh as a small country, but it's farmers count among the world's largest, 2 producers. a fast lives in the village of his lee.
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he is one of the wealthier people in the village. his annual income, he says, is the equivalent of 5000 years. the a thoughts has 4 sons. at the sound category, after one is also a farmer and 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 will help you. hi.
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when i 1st was young, the slogan used to to now plastic handmade and bangladesh was popular and 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 is more urgent than ever in the village of his li, scrap metal and plastic are collected for recycling. the people are paid and edible, not so they will have to do to eventually replace plastic. who are the people who cultivate the plants?
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now, what role does jude play for them? whose ever 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 to talk to it's considerably some years proceeds from sales fail to cover production costs. the government is trying to counteract this economic issue. a problem. you just take
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a partnership with the ugly. i'm the one in the market. price is high right now, and i'm farmers are interested again obvious and we want to support them 5 inches square. we is. these are leaking in the current season. our department has provided them with seed and fertilize are free of charge. so 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 have a number to lead? my name is to lee. i'm working as an assistant officer at the department of agriculture extension. i've got totally vocal right. isn't that isn't the data. okay. yeah, that definitely the fiber feels thick and strong. it will be a good,
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you know, obviously you're finding foreigners that hold on resist the, the harvested tooth. 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 you must do. water attracts insects and victoria that are good for the jews and help the fermentation of the plant. but it's bad for human skin and causes itching says a fight today, it is bearable and says if as he's used to it anyway,
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other challenges are more daunting. not move on the box. that's what number one in fact that i'll call you because you have one of the i like round you, especially the jew sticks, you know, they sell very well and don't require much work on, you know, but when it's too dry, we have a problem running 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 pons 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 disrupting ecosystems throughout south asia says to lee and jude farmers feel the
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effects 1st tend fox. i said i'm on the see the money to wash much. you says the my ancestors already knew that we have a very low me soil here. just kind of follow a model who made it only needs a little reading to retain moisture. mazda the parking lot of on sandy soil. did you plan to not survive more than 10 days without rain? world is in for bar at the market. that type of soil is we are here behind the year . it rains fairly reliably, every $15.00 to $30.00 days and summer would get to the bottom. and so our judgment is not damaged. the model is other, it will not be unlimited from this. unlike cotton or rice, which need constant water do, does not require artificial irrigation. i
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thought says that he'd never heard of a buyer degradable plastic like material made from jude until i use doctor told him about it. he uses a conventional plastic see to protect his plans. the it is that the one that i had not who i put the plastic sheet on top to prevent the mud from getting in and sticking to the fibers depending on the quality of the
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fibers, the jude has to soak and water for 12 to 15 days. so that it starts to run if the plan was already very ripe, when it was harvested, i can take it out again after just $8.00 to $10.00 days, but i thought i'd go get the of the in a huge pond right next door. the dude sticks are almost ready. okay, that was the other day. i said it would have to 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 or 5 days.
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in his li, our youth is known as the model farmer. he grows everything from oranges to, to toyota, and his family make some 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 jude farmer even if she could do to them. now the do try me is not, not they have these the, both of these how much those kinds of reduce. because the dial me is by my, the jude me is, are all so they don't to the day of dante any buyers to buy sandy. a
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deuce, so many people have to leave the dose and it is. the chart is all scan it is they allow us to do. so i'll watch to well, i separated the fibers. this chart is of plan is people out of the go use the now center building the building, the house, the, the construction moves factories do used to be very important for bangladesh says that the pulling out an old bank note. i bring it because the, the symbols, the symbols, the farmer are kind of do is the farmer. they have separate fiber from the jews and the pop curry. they have separate the 2 and it is our national groups. the no. so the not has the same symbol i see. so i read for you the do is
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type a color that is the that these wash from the borrower that, that is golden color golden show. she will not be asked to evaluate college. so natalie asked, that is golden try that? and it is so it is a, it is on the national across because each so we exports the other countries and we get dollars to that guy 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. louisville soil. a climate that is humid and hot.
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jude has been harvested and processed here for centuries. the british colonial rulers took the jude 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 army notice is a jude farmer here. the
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why? why a 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 developers and goods. every day i come back here in the morning and believe in the evening. i loved the nature here. however, the ears, fresh and common, looked to however, there's so much to do on the island. so many opportunities on the on the mainland. i have new land and nothing to working with. i river pirates. that's what i mean. what the calls, the people who attacked and seriously injured his brother that got he shows us the
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scars from the knife bones. he tells us that the pirates stole his cows, is it is all over the crime is not the only thing that makes life hard on the chars. legally i show so that one of our struggle as far as the outside of my c id must be with the rainy season that floods over twice. i go as i so we move the coast to the mainland on. oops, while very well. but the weather is just 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 live up there, thing get, we're going to shoot. i think it was all over the booked. i'd be as really if he seems to be volume or the date to get him is take it back. he gets it so. so what i'm a landlord i mean, nor shows how high the watch of reached in recent years. how long i was. i'm
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charged even disappear completely for a time. $200.00 people live on this river island without electricity or solid ground under their feet. their jude times are resilient to they can withstand flooding for a good 2 weeks. but even the robust do times have their limits. who are the who do i have the reason why they're hard to believe. i believe i found that you back to their what it is totally ruined by the, by the department of the but couldn't because of the extreme flooding. we couldn't harvest quickly and the funny word and they died of those in the flood lasted for almost 3 weeks to complete. the front of me, i believe,
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is in there by the department, but everything was right about the put that there are new fibers, a little cold by me as if by me i should do the lose of the shop. but when the water comes on the plan trimmings under water for too long to clear, turns black around. no, i then ogden is no good to go on. more i got to think of the problem is that gives you though, that the list of only the golden, shimmering fibers are really worth. and i think if i don't look, i don't know about the, even if the plant certainly have some commercial. walter, how structural the fibers that come out of low quality. that'd be all right, but we get a lower price on the market because they are just colored or even black or not as of the cars have all the numbers you i to prevent this dude. farmers on the chars have devised a system that i mean who is proud of leaving the island is not an option.
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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 good, by the way i live on the river. walter isn't murky the stream carries on most of the soil and clean the substances. stick to the doot fibers degrading quality and causing the due to black and good. however, if the river water is channels into a pond or 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 artificial canals and water holes. the if i didn't know, do they got to you in the bottle?
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this is walter that comes from the river by the all the impurities in the month of settle to the bottom of the water with the bundle by the time. well, actually the water is clear, and that's how you can still get the golden color to the basics of 5 not talked about. otherwise, there's no chance of getting good quality fibers are low yet another problem is impacting the by to river island to a low pressure the if there's too much plastic around, then harms the crumbs. so we gather it burnett that solves the problems, are plastic. the 2, no people want to use less plastic bag, but i just have because we have already in the past batch are made of jute most now we're going back to jude shopping bags, sacks, etc. people are fed up with plastic that the of
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the 200 kilometers down stream. there are people who want to solve the plastic problem . with the house of 2 in the capital duyka scientists are working on this 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 and con, protective suits and mass have also been produced using this new bio plastic. the
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main raw material is dried dude fibers. then we find the setters because the main ingredient of this one in the back is set arrows definitely made descent loose from just condition. then we put into the reaction thing the reaction. we have to set up the temperature pressure and time for the poor direction. and then we own the skype. so some of these are the exact formula. it's a secret and says doctor con, this finale bag has suffered some setbacks. it was just about to go into mass production when the cobra pen, democrats, sewing bags from this to polymer is also still a problem. the producers don't have access to the right machines using dude for
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fiber reinforced compass. it's 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 10. you can uh, is accomplish. it met you. so that is a good for thought of bodies now, and that tons 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 of flux is better than to condense function. but at flux, the production of flexibility, limited in some countries and the price is 2 times so important, higher than that of june. sometimes it's, i just have a good quality plot to say about 10 times 5 at the end of june. so in that case, joke is the potential candidate for making the com project
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the i have to do every scientist has the mind. the destination hutton, i want to go there. that is a distribution. so lastly, i want to see why i'm using one to why? because juke is really incredible, because he wanted 70 percent centers, you cannot find any t or across in all of them was we scored 1071. there are some plans, but it's not plenty. it's not kind of difficult. anybody like to is susan of corruption bundle with dish. so it is the hardest thing time use $110.00 days on the other. one creek on kentucky, person,
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the settings on their bodies. lucky dick's getting to good people in yes, commit to the this is the last the policy so he can see the set on the barney. this are a little bit. it's a just like, you know, victor here. this is the can proceed. and me did, through a battery, gave me this isn't necessarily product this, this is as it sounds like the perfect fiber.
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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 tex 1000 to this absolutely noble idea and the mobile counties working on that. you're willing to do no, any already talked to him, but the, the, somebody should actually, uh, the need to be addressed before waiting for the most production. kind of, uh, uh, the costing things the other costing. of course the whole list actually cost that is $1.00 issue. um, because people know get actually plastic bags or pull the thing big, big, stupid,
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almost a low cost. so yeah, that is $11.00 issue actually there is this the company. so with the this plus people product and best go into some pretty good product. but the plastic comedy 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 brothers are also here, states what they tell us that plastic causes a lot of damage to their crops. somebody might have done,
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but i don't think they've got a of this plastic is very harmful. how the when it burns like sticky, dangerous residues remain. and 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 rose. well, if the soil is boys under a 100, because the high long enough, they would be glad to grow more to and does produce more natural fibers, but conditions have to improve. many people including iops, uncle, hide, are, are unhappy this quote for you can give a member to define it. that's what we want. we also think about it all. the time. cute is really profitable, but we simply don't have any more water holes where we can leave the stocks to rock . and i mean, it's a real crisis. i got them kind of table tight. there are so many things we could do that i knew i'm not hardwood,
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they might have but i better have them do though as i did. i did it as a whole in love but i need to do the struggle. 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 binding. so cutting them off is near enough to low to plan on well charge you. they're crucial them taking sure to to run it must cut out wherever there is water upon the dishes. i know it is. it was a lot to know. they are all use for fish farm and ready to go to those. i got the, our hands are tied on while you're doing that is that it must natasha jennifer. how much would it make to go to? and that's why they have created their own artificial ponds. these experience farmers make the hard work look easy, having rubbed, mineral oil on his body before getting into the sinking water to relieve the itching i loosened institute fibers by hitting the stems,
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the law. and this is how you waiting to talk. lots of course, to go to hulu. it was not a big deal in addition, don't talk it over the whole. so it was a cultivation process is tyra shoot has many benefit when it is young, we can each other. once you've extracted the fibers, we make the money from it. they lose it right. it sticks as far we've done, would have done any given who is makes up for the hard labor cost through allowance,
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even though just contribution is painful when a buy. it brings us lots of benefits of black. i'm a recruiter, we're 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'd certainly have to ensure that we build up our immune system in the, the the
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what does some of them have good. what about the think if i do lock them on the moon? love, hello. well no, no punch on the deer cause the high effects that tips, photos, jute has changed our luck since it's currently being sold as a good market price i see to the bottom down and costs less to produce compared with other products for the initiative on marketing and we can recover the production expenses by selling the dried stock. so look at one box. will it be nice to, to be shut up that gosh, so if i wrote you to the field too, 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 or so that's why you to cultivation is a profitable crop for us. farmers on the side of the
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it takes 3 days for the 2 bundles to dry in the sun or you know, fast and sell them to wholesalers who picked them up directly in his late the to sell their too many farmers travel to the small town 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 by to then deliver it to the mills or a boss. what about them all?
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hey, we have to make 5 kilo's less. there are 3 categories of jude's 1st, 2nd and 3rd rate quality that determines the price i pay. i buy a good quality duty at a high price medium level model, but it is medium quality by giving me the good one. and then look at that as low quality high quality here. first class, the best a defense is type. everything is okay, the night over vertically, clean soft, smooth, vertically at other than these bacon. this one is rough, very different. it's from the floods. well no, i don't know if by any government i say within well no. so that's out of the medical ways wholesalers often store the
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tooth and warehouse. it's in order to increase demand from the mills and does drive up the price. in recent years, the government has closed down several jude mounts, which were said to be unprofitable. tens of thousands for left unemployed. there are times to modernize the industry according to the ministry, to the privately owned house on ali, to smell, and before us sources do from all over the country and produces it in 3 ships, 24 hours a day. 7 days a week, the, the conditions are bad. the temperatures colors
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not true to. fabrics may not be very soft, but they are durable and highly feasible. production manager mohammed drum and tells us that the material was already being used in the 18th century in germany. in the region of present day has been one of the died of money pick a would put the will actually the so called hash and goes back to germany where soldiers, uniforms used to be made of jude out of money to to say this was then adopted by the british army, oh wait, we'll shut that. we do see that there. and they then called a fabric ocean. how can you see that the money hit cnn for that
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that's our germany is one of the pioneers in the industrial revolution before getting off to, if they were to import truth from our country, from cosigned, deals with a governmental to go to what we could produce more of the goals and fibers and suppliers. i mean, even though she forgot to comment on spirals to harvest more, if i know most of farmers would come forward to cultivate much use and try to get us updated access to people on the go to the water allowed to park. though we do, the main challenge, i think is the price fluctuation. there is no certainty. 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. the digital government conduct the back of its the only issue saelens ticket being asked about will use to, to not plastic. make a come back. the history farmers hope so, but it's up to others to make it happen until then
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a fast will continue farming as best he can today he finds himself at the market in the evening and that was part of the the 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 it motivates me to keep working. and then i'm even happy . i don't work or model the the,
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into the conflict zone with the best in here as the munich security conference, as cynthia in security and company, providing the politicians on that side of the world reach the dangerous inflection point. my guess is we have the 2nd live experience of the highest levels in the us 90 below. see welcome to come in 30 minutes. d w. i haven't understanding the
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