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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.98,0:00:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are what we eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.24,0:00:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how many of us know,\Nwhat we are actually eating?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.24,0:00:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of us know, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.38,0:00:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what food does to environment\Nbefore it comes to our plate
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.64,0:00:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.73,0:00:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what food does to farmer,\Nwho is producing that food?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.08,0:00:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know? have you ever thought?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.80,0:00:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of you think\Nif you are eating food,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.20,0:00:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the farmer who has produced it \Nor fate of the farmer who has produced?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.83,0:00:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, some of the questions\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which grappled me when I was\Nstudying my agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.98,0:00:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While doing my Ph. D. in agriculture \NI had a choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.94,0:00:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like every young boy in 90's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.77,0:00:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was also crazy about \Ngetting into Indian Civil Sercvice
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.34,0:01:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reading the Indian Economy \NI really understood about Indian Economy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.24,0:01:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by reading for an exam.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.50,0:01:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally by time I got into services,\NI was selected for Indian Revenue Service.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.13,0:01:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I also had a choice of joining as \NAgricultural Research Scientist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.43,0:01:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was tough choice.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.10,0:01:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made my choice as joined as \NAgricultural Research Scientist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.72,0:01:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, "I should continue \Nworking with farmers."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.43,0:01:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.91,0:01:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, that didn't last long,\NI'll come to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.41,0:01:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I come to that, \Nlet's understand ,"What is our food?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.74,0:01:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we are eating? How safe is our food?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.81,0:01:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of you saw this news, sometime back
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.24,0:01:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pesticides residues in soft drinks \Nand bottled water.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.80,0:01:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, forgot the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.65,0:01:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever thought, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.20,0:01:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How pesticides residues come into \Nthis bottled water or soft drink?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.80,0:02:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If bottled water and soft drink had \Npesticide residues,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.70,0:02:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water you used to make tea or coffee\Nalso must be having,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.07,0:02:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we never worried about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.31,0:02:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The news is short the next day\Nwe forget about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.04,0:02:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least this must be a memory,\NNoodles having heavy metals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.01,0:02:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of you've thought,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.10,0:02:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how did this heavy metals reached \Nin the Noodles?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.35,0:02:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If lead has to added in Noodles,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.14,0:02:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably lead is more costly than Noodles.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.03,0:02:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody will add it but it came.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.93,0:02:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If ingredients used to make Noodles\Nhad the lead,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.18,0:02:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "Aata" which you used to make \Nyour "Chapati" also must be having.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.96,0:02:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the Samosa which you're eating\Nalso must be having. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.95,0:02:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we don't connect the dots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.45,0:02:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same is the story when we hear about\Npesticide residues in vegetables.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.03,0:02:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You all get horrified. \NBut, forget it in the evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.11,0:03:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all think if we buy food at good place \Nor eat it in good hotel, it's safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.38,0:03:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food is only as safe as it is grown.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.94,0:03:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End of pipe solutions doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.89,0:03:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pesticides which are \Nused in agriculture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.24,0:03:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less than 1% actually kills the insects,\N99% gets into the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.82,0:03:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get into the air \Nand comes back to your food.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.98,0:03:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We look at it very casually.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.43,0:03:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything happened around us\Nwe look at it casually.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.25,0:03:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll give you one example,\NWhile having the lunch I saw people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.95,0:03:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painting there, what was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.24,0:03:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spray Paint.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.95,0:03:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does it go?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.56,0:03:40.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of it goes on to the board,\Npart of it into the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.27,0:03:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You all were eating there.\NIt comes there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.09,0:03:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all are educated,\NWe feel we can make connections.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.72,0:03:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never make.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.32,0:03:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we expect that farmer will\Nmake those connections.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.72,0:03:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and produce safe food for all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.27,0:03:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's where disconnect between,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.36,0:04:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we observe, what we know,\Nand how we act is the serious problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.35,0:04:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not only about the pesticides,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.06,0:04:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know the eggs \Nthat you buy in the market
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.02,0:04:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what kind of eggs you buying?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.03,0:04:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are half cloyed eggs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.71,0:04:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half cloyed means they are produced\Nwithout male & female meeting together.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.95,0:04:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why if you hatch the eggs,\Nthey won't make chickens.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.04,0:04:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how they are produced?\NThey are produced by using estrogens
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.27,0:04:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happen to those estrogen?\N\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.76,0:04:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you eat those eggs?\Nthey'll come back to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one reason today\Npivot in girl child has advanced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gynic problems in women has increased.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breast development in men has increased.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know last year's India Today's \Nsurvey shows that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest number of plastic surgeries \Ndone in India of to remove breast in men
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you got into that situation \Nwhere fruit is supposed to be healthy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is creating all that problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just pesticides or antibiotics\Nare growth hormones,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are used in production.\NBut also how they are processed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might have heard the last one week\N10 days doing rounds in all the media
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artificially ripened fruits.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But why fruits are ripened artificially?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of you want to fruits in off season.\NHow will they do it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want mangoes in May,\Nhow do you get mangoes?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to cut unripened one's \Nripen it artificially and sell it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Banana's which are seeing uniformed yellow\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they? \NThey all are carbon ripen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The apples the shiny apples which you see,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they? When were they produced?\NWhere were they produced? Do you know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,California apples, \Nyou get apple from California
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you keep it fresh?\NThey are coated with wax.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go back to your home, \Ntake apple from your fridge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just scratch it. You'll see the wax.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are eating all that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The watermelons which are red in color,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are injected with injections, color.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are injected with growth hormones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The milk which is sold,\Nwe have seen in news last several years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reports which say, "The milk is \Ncontaminated with synthetic milk."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to have milk \Nat 40 rupees a liter thats what you get.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want food cheaper,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is competition \Nbetween the companies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pay low to the farmers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also contaminate it \Nand get away with that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All brands that sold in Hyderabad,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prone to have contaminated with synthetic milk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,GM Foods, How many of you know about this?\NHow many of you've heard about this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BT Brinjal, to tell you simply,\Nwhat BT Brinjal is?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when pesticide is sprayed from outside \Nit damages the environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I said,"99% goes into the environment\Nonly 1% kills the insect."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So scientist thought why not we produce\Npesticide in plant itself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So plant produces insecticides.\NSo which ever insect eats plant will die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happens to us?\NWho eats that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there are several bio safety questions\Nin front of us which were never addressed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you see here, yellow, white,\Ngolden rice which is going to come soon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know why it was done?\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say "vitamin A deficiency \Nis serious problem, so we will produce
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vitamin A in the plant."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you eat that rice you can have \Nas much as vitamin A as possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But do you know vitamin A is \Nfat soluble vitamin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not just enough to have vitamin A,\Nbut you also need to have enough fat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you have enough fat in your food\Nyou don't need golden rice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2005 we came across a farmer in Guntur,\NWho was cultivating BT Bhendi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were shocked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said "How did you get it?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said,"Company gave me the seeds."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went to the company.\NThey said,"We are doing a trial."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went to the government.\NGovernment said,"Yeah, That is seen."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "You are not permitted."\NThose were taken off in 2005.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2013, similarly we came across a cotton,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kerbside tolerant cotton which is grown.\NNo permissions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2009, when BT brinjal was permitted \Nthere were public discussions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But It was the only time \Nthere was for public discussion,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to introduce whether we need a food or not\NAnd it was banned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, some wise politicians \Ntake better decisions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But by this we would have \Nflooded with GM foods.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today there is case pending in\NSupreme Court,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is expert committee appointed by\NSupreme Court.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which said, "We don't need this \Nfor next 10 yrs. Let's wait."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is parliament standing committee \N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was appointed it also said \N"We don't need."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you don't know how they are \Ngoing to come into your plate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food is not only useful energy\Nbut also good for your health.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can treat many of the deceases.\NFoot is a medicine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can act as preventive medicine and\NIt can also act as a curative medicine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know many people who are working on\Ntreating autism with good food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the problem which you are seeing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obesity, diabetes, blood pressure\Nall are because of the food which you eat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to make right choice\Nabout your food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second, What food does to the environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's look at ecological footprints.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many you have seen rice fields?\NAlmost all, right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What comes to your mind \Nwhen we think of rice fields?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Full of water. How much water it takes\Nto produce an acre of rice?\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,6 million liters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,6 million liters per acre of rice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is equal to 100 families \Nannual consumption.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 family of 5 members eats about \Na Kg of rice a day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is equivalent to taker of water.\N180 showers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us want to eat rice,\Nmore and more water you'll need
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in production of rice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were making calculation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much 1 meal of rice in Hyderabad \Ncosts an environment?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's probably as big as, all over a dam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to worry about,\Nthe ecological footprints.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just about the water, \Nabout pesticides, about growth hormone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything. What agriculture leaves \Nbefore it comes to you plate?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just that. \NWhat it does to farmers?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more and more pesticides you spray\Ninsects get resistance. They don't work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First time you spray,\Nsecond time you spray
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,third time you spray it,\Nfifth time you drink.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we have seen \Nalong farmer suicides.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fall outs of such things is \Nincreasing cost of cultivation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but prices are not increasing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know 1 Kg of rice costs \NRs. 2100/- as per government calcuations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But today price is on 1400 for farmers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today a ton of sugarcane is Rs. 2000/-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A ton of firewood is Rs. 4000/-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How farmers can live?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The policies are also lop sided.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today average income of 83% of farmer\Nin this country is only Rs. 5000/-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So farmers have lost \Ntheir economic independence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just economic independence,\Nphysical independence as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This were photographs taken farmers were \Nstanding in queue for fertilizers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing in queue for seeds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeds which they can produce.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fertilizer which they can\Nmake by composting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are not subsidized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you buy it in a market,\Nthey are subsidized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lop sided policies from government.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these are lead to farmer suicides.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In last 20 yrs 3,00,000 farmers \Nhave committed suicide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyday about 48.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the point about just discussing\Ndark side of the picture?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much and we can do \Nto change the situation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of us working in agriculture.\NVarious institution came together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we started organization called \NCenter for Sustainable Agriculture in 2004
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started working with farmers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telling them, \N"How they can move away from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the high external input base agriculture \Nto low external input based agriculture?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was not easy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what we found is across the country \Nthere were wonderful experiences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all those experiences were thought\Nin ideological framework.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't talk to each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are good things, bad things \Nbut if they discuss with each other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would have been good\Nbut they never talk to each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Main stream institutions \Nnever worried about them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we brought all practices together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evolved what we called as sustainable \Nagricultural practices.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first success came in Kulukulla.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kulukulla is village in Kamang district\Nwhich became completely pesticide free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The village which was speinding 60 LPA,\Nthey completely stopped using pesticides.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agriculture minister came.\NHe said, "Wonderful. What do you want?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Farmers said,\N"Make Andhra Pradesh pesticide free."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was amazed. He said,\N"Certainly I'll do. But what do you want?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said,"We are happy with what we have.\NBut change all the agricultural practices"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He brought all \Nagriculture university scientists of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,department of agriculture together to see\Nand then make a change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said,"Sir, this is one village\Nwe can't do it. It's not possible."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came Enabavi this is 80 km from here,\Ncompeltely organic village.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last three years over 10000 people \Nhave visited the village to know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How they are doing farming?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But this has also not changed anything \Nunder government."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But consumers have changed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people have started understanding\Nwhat is good for them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an advertisement \Nwhich is The Hindu uses for itself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the village called Dorli.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dorli is in Vardha. After Telanagana,\Nyou hear lots of suicide from Vardha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2005 the village was put up for sale.\NFarmers decided, we can't do farming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put up village for sale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went there in 2006 and said\N"Can we start working together?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today all of them have repaid their loans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of them are back to farming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's possible. It's possible. \NIt's possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All examples are in front of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also side by side worked with \Nwoman self fill groups in Andhra Pradesh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are cover stories of "Down To Earth"\Nmagazine which tracked the whole change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started with 225 acres in 2005.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today its 35,00,000 acre in Andhra Pradesh\Nand Telangana together pesticide free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50% use of pesticide \Nin state has came down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were 3rd in country \Nin terms of pesticide used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today we are 20th in the country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was part of a show on Satyamev Jayate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of you might have seen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this show we had interesting discussion\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other side was person\Nwho was largest pesticide seller in country
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Towards end Amir Khan asked me a question,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am fully convienced with\Nwhat you're saying and what you're doing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is possible to do it India. But how to \Nconvince man who is sitting here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said ask his brother, His brother is \Nlargest organic exporter in this country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "Yes."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That shows people see it as business.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they sell pesticide, will sell pesticide\Nif they sell organic, will sell organic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You buy pesticides or \Nour organic pesticides
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or certificate from us, saying \N"you haven't used any of these things."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Farmers are made into consumers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what our consumers are doing?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then what we did is we brought \Nsome consumers in Hyderabad together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to form a consumer cooperative called\NSahaja Aharam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also brought all farmers together \Nto form farmers cooperative
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that they can market directly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we've 20 farmer cooperatives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who produce organically \Nand directly sell in market.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While many of you worry about \Norganic food prices.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sahaja Aharam prices are 20% lower\Nthan the market prices.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And 75% of what consumer pays go to farmer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the regular market in which just 20%\Ngoes to farmer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I see from here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see a ray of hope.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If all of us can join together \Nwe can make a change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's long way to go \Nin terms of Government Policies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still there is serious crisis in agricuture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday you might have seen\Nabout farmer's suicide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today mornings newspaper,\Nyou might have seen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number of farmers are dying.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a responsibility of all of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Business as usual is not an option.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to change as consumers\Nwe need change as farmers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all need to come together \Nto pressurize government
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, the future is very very glee.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)