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bob and i started cultivating duty at the age of 12, in those days of june, 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 of 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 material. that feels him to be hayes like
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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 c scientist. uh it is a bio d good to buy a good plastic. the r u n. his uncle of us farm the natural fiber according to century. so tradition put 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 is heavy at the end of the been galley months of to
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a true. we so the see that a 2 or 4 months later in the month of chart we harvest that kind of my head. can we then planned other crops on the same soil, such as over scenes or potato? what at the portable 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 how much we use them as climbing aids. investable seasons bought 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. foss 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 euros. the us has 4 sons at the front of the guy after one is also a farmer, but another one is a driver. one is living in malaysia as a migrant worker, and the other is an engineer. i am 75 years old when i pulled up to the high
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when i 1st was young. the slogan used to 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 is 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 so they will have to do to eventually replace plastic. who are the people who cultivate the plants? now, what role does jude play for them? whose ever overall jude cultivation has advantages. we hardly earned anything from
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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 a partnership with the ugly and i'm gonna jump on the market price as high right
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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 our free of charge of the h was this creates incentives. the farmers have to invest less or more and can make a bigger profit. it kept the number of cds of these taskbar suffice. and a 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 you, the foreigners that hold on resist
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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 fast 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 all could you repeat it? one of the i like round you, especially the dude 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 puns that are normally used for fish farming and i have a pond close to i. ups, pond. climate change is making every thing harder. extreme weather conditions are disrupting ecosystems throughout south asia says truly and dude, farmers feel the effects for us tend
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lots us it. i'm on the see the money to wash much. you says 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 range fairly reliably, every $15.00 to $30.00 days in summer would get to the bottom. so our judgment is not damaged. the models, other it'll monthly i wanted to call on like cotton or rice, which need constant water to does not require artificial irrigation
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of thoughts says that he'd never heard of a buyer. degradable plastic like material made from june until i you've stopped or told him about it. he uses a conventional plastic sheet to protect his plants. the . this is the one that i did not hold on. i put the plastic sheet on top to prevent the mode from getting in and sticking to the fibers, depending on the quality of the fibers that jude has to soak and water for 12 to 15 days, so that it starts to run. if the plant was already very ripe,
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when it was harvested, i can take it out again after just 8 to 10 days, but i thought i'd go to 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 took a positive kind of set function that i think it will take another 4 or 5 days in his li, are you up, is known as the module farmers. he grows everything from oranges to toot and his
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family makes them 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 so. now the do try me is not, not they have these the both have the farmer says guy to reduce because the dial me is by my, the jude me is, are all. so they don't to the del dante any buyers to buy sandy, a juice so many people inside of leave the juice. and it is.
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the chart is all scan it is they allow us to do side wash to well, i separated the fibers. this chart is of plan is people out of the go use. yes, goodness ends the 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 the i b because the, the symbols, the symbols, the farmer are proud to is the farmer of separate fiber from the jews and the pop corey. they have separate the 2 and it is our national groups, the know. so the not has the same symbolize this t. so i read for you to do is type a color that is the that these wash from the borrower that, that is golden color,
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golden. sure, 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 our, 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 stuff. cyber 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. jude has been harvested in process tier
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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 lift 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 problem of put trevor. the army notice is a jude farmer. here the
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lie. 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 buy them. but i live on the mainland because of the robbers and goons. every day i come back here in the morning and believe in the evening. i loved the nature here, however, the ears fresh and comic looked. however, there's so much to do on the island so many opportunities on the mainland. i have new land and nothing to working with a river pirates. that's what i mean. what caused the people who attacked and seriously injured his brother? that god he shows us the scars from the knife bones. he tells us that the pirates stole his cows. is it is all over
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the crime is not the only thing that makes life hard on the chars. how's it legally? i've house level or shut down. as far as the outside of my c id, it must be with the rainy season that floods over twice. i go as i so we moves the coast, the mainland on boots very well, but the exist in 2 or 3 days. everything here is under water and i saw here that the, this was 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 issue. i think it was all over thought that'd be as we were thinking since of the volume of the dates there. what kind of piggybacking stuff this is so so we're laying down what i mean north shows how high the watch are reached in recent years long. i was, i'm charged even disappeared completely for
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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, who do i have the reason why? the reason why i believe i found that you back there. what it is totally ruined is you by the always, you know, if i grew up with the but couldn't because of the extreme flooding, we couldn't harvest quickly in the neighborhood and they died up. so i have those in the flood lasted for almost 3 weeks to complete. the funding, i believe is in there by the, by that, that everything was right. but of course,
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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, a low grade turns black around. no, as an option is no good for more. i got to think of the problems that gives you the diagnosis of only the golden shimmering fibers are really worth and i think so bottom like i don't know a box because i've lived here though. even if the plants certainly have some commercial, walter, how structural the fibers that come out of low quality. that'd be higher, but we gets a lower price on the market, right? because they are discolored or even black or not divulge why the god bless you. i to 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
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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 is murky. the stream carries on most of the soil and clean the substances stick to the jude fibers degreed in quality, and causing the juice to black in good. however, if the river washers channels into a pond or canal with the water is clear and fresh, i know the cute remains on damaged plots and retains its golden color. so they have created artificial canals and water holes. the 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
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. but it got more, lots of water is clear, and that's how you can still get the golden color, the basics of 5 non talked about. otherwise, there's no chance of getting good quality fibers. i 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 so and burn it. 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 june most now we're going back to jude shopping bags, sacks, etc. people are fed up with plastic. that tough. one of the, the,
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the 200 kilometers downstream. there are people who want to solve the plastic problem with the house of, to the, in the capital deca scientists are working on the 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. it's the invention of bangladesh, the scientists dr. mubarek met con, protective suits and mass have also been produced using this new bio plastic. the main raw material is dried dude fibers. then we find dissenters
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because the main ingredient of this one in the back is set arrows. that's the made descent loose from the reaction thing, the reaction we have to set up the temperature pressure and time for the poor to action. and then we own these types of tanisha, 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 dependent make it. the sewing bags from this to polymer is also still the problem. the producers don't have access to the right machines using due to per fiber, reinforced compass. that's how it's already been proven to work. dr. con has been
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experimenting with the material for years. it's due to reinforced polymer mixture also has a name to 10. you can uh, is accomplish it met you. so that is a good for the bottom of this now. and the trends in gentleman in as, as early as in susan and also data making some box with the flex fiber inputs accomplish it to the property of flux is better than to convince some extent. 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 plus the sum of 10 times at the end of june. so in that case, duties the potential candidate for making the con, the
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i have to do every scientist has the mind to destination what i want to go there. that is the distribution. so lastly, i want to say why i'm using one to why? because the truth is really incredible, because kick pointed 70 percent centers, you cannot find any t or pulse in all of them was we scored 1071. there are some plans, but it's not plenty. it's not kind of give it to 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, the settings on their bodies. lucky dick's getting to compete in yes. commit to
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the this is rusty policy. so he can see the set on the burning. this are a little bit. it's a just like, you know, victoria here, this is the can proceed and you, me did through a battery cable. this isn't necessarily product this. this is as it sounds like the perfect fiber. so why hasn't the environmentally friendly juke
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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 home la counties working on that. you want to do know any already talked to him, but the, the, some 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 cost that is one issue um, because people know get actually plastic bags or anything big, big, stupid, almost a low cost. so yeah, that is one issue. actually there is
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a stick completion with the this plus people to put the thing back, going to some pretty good product. but the plastic comedy is very, very strong. keep on pipe dealers dollars business every year for the single do us shopping back. so they are not easily allow you to enter the market plastics. an industry that is blocking jude farmers expansion and increasingly jeopardizing their very existence 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 today. i don't think they've got a of this plastic is very harmful though. when it burns, like sticky,
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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 rose. well, if the soil is boy is under a 100 because the high and how long enough they would be glad to grow more to and does produce more natural fibers. but conditions have to improve. many people including i ups, 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 on the table tight. there are so many things we could do that i knew i'm next hardwood. they do mind if i when i better i'm going to go 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,
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they didn't leave the no, they were leased by the government to people who are farming fish in the country by me. so kind of your boxes near and also low to find a rough 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 is i got the, our hands are tied on while you're doing that's coming up is that have mazda? tasha johnson, how much would it make to go to? and that's why they have created their own artificial ponds. these experienced farmers make the hard work look easy, having rubbed, mineral oil on his body before getting into the stinking water to relieve the itching, i loosened institute fibers by hitting the stems, the
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law. and this is how you waiting to talk lots of course to 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, we make the money from it. they lose it, right? you sticks us, fire, we're done with the 0 who's makes up for the hard labor force to rely on. so even though just cultivation is painful when it brings us lots of benefits back on with
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it, it will kind of like the when to is still very young. it's leaves are used in cooking and are very healthy. are you? ps wife alo says, so now she so we'll talk soon. these a green vegetables are full of vitamins healthy. i mean, generally it's ensure that we build up our immune system in the the the quad. josh,
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i want to do my good. what about the think if i block them on the moon of hello? no, no punch. what to do cause the high thought said tips caught us. jute has changed our luck since it's currently being sold a good market price. i see to run it up number, nothing costs less to produce compared with other products for the initiative on marketing. how do we can recover the production expenses by selling the dried stock? so look at one bipolar the next to to be shut up. that gosh, so if i go to 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 the nama, there's a nicole or so that's why you called a vision, 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 dry in the sun i you know, fast, then sell them to wholesalers who picked them up directly in his late the to sell their 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 by 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,
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the 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 this is medium quality by giving me the good one. and then low, good. bad is low quality. a high quality here 1st class, the best a defense is type. everything is okay, or does it have night over vertically, a clean, soft, smooth, vertically at other than these vacant. this one is rough, very different. it's from the floods. well, no, i don't know if i knew the when i say within well, no. so that doesn't matter. who it is, wholesalers often store the tooth in warehouse. it's in order to increase demand
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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 were 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 the
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from the fibers present to 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 textiles and sometimes called pets. yes. mm. okay,
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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 what the material was already being used in the 18th century in germany or in the region of present day has a similar to data. many take a would put the, well, no, actually, the so called hash and goes back to germany, where soldiers, uniforms used to be made of jude out of money to say this was then adopted by the british army. or we will set the issue that there, and they then called a fabric ocean. how can you see that data money hit cnn for that late? i've tried to with the
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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. global interests would really help say the history of farmers separately. that's our germany is one of the pioneers in the industrial revolution before
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getting off to, if they were to import truth from our country, from consign deals with a governmental to what the, 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 buy 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, that the back of it, 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, a fast will continue farming as best he can to day
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he finds himself at the market in the evening. one part 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, more, don't think about money today. what are 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 go a lot all the the
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i haven't understanding the forest to say the people are trying to find this need a to assistant man resource thing. again trying to change and it's working. all right. so you minutes on d. w. during the day on the traditional johnson and i'm a co, it's by night i'm gone. imagine i'm
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