Eco India: How can farmers thrive without using chemical fertilisers?

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Every week, Eco India brings you stories of innovations from across India and Europe, and the people who make them possible. Our top story this week looks at how an organisation in Telangana is empowering farmers to move away from chemical fertilisers.
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[@abhishekbose1081]

Did anyone notice the solar panels. I am from north but i truly agree that south is our future. And recently Telengana is really taking the farming processes to next level. Thank u

[@amritaparida3992]

Abhishek Bose Exactly, I too noticed the solar panels and was about to comment about it.

[@aniruddhakaryekar2390]

Yes don't forget Maharashtra which is is our true future .

[@abhishekbose1081]

@@aniruddhakaryekar2390 Being a Bengali I truly accept that Maharashtra is our future but u need to be more open towards outsider. Because the level Maharashtra has achieved is not only been made possible by the indigenous people but talent from all over India have their share in it.

[@arulganapathy5643]

Bzc very old tradition is there..

[@CityIn360]

Whole india will be like this

[@vandana8299]

I understand Telugu (though this dialect is slightly unfamiliar), so I made a stab at translation: Sanamma spoke about how much they’ve taught her. She feels like a part of a big family. She wants to work on their farm until the day she dies and pass on whatever knowledge she gained to the next generation. Her only goal in working here is to spread awareness to other farms and communities.

[@kunalroy2712]

Thanks!

[@utuberme1]

Thank you! 👍

[@Rajat000111]

Thanks for the translation

[@SURVEJAYDEEP]

Thanks for taking efforts when no one asked you to... laudable selfless act

[@paulsaladi545]

Thankyou!

[@grusomelove7878]

She should be the Agriculture Minister of India

[@smitakumari4302]

Agree without doubt.....we have people in authority who have no knowledge in that field .....only fooling farmers and poor people.

[@aniruddhakaryekar2390]

We have no of people in maharashtra like this ,for a minister these kind of people are not necessary in fact these are traditional people. all intelligent class should do farming . then the future of our nation will be different .

[@criptions5654]

@@aniruddhakaryekar2390 agree... people from france, Australia, Italy are all leaving well paid jobs and resorting to permaculture.govt cannot provide indefinite jobs.we have to fend for ourselves and survive in league with nature.then we will be winners

[@hussainsyed2161]

I am proud to be a telugu my state Telangana....proud of you.....

[@muthamilselvam8802]

Big laugh from tamil nadu... Who is the mother land of india and mother language of telungu #Tamil

[@prasujyagogoi5656]

😍😍😍 Wow great step. Northeastern state sikkim has also led this kind of organic farming. Sikkim is the only state that is completly organic

[@apollotyre1078]

Would like to visit Sikkim some day 👍

[@mayureshsardar2089]

Everyone should try this type of agriculture... impressive ❤️

[@sumantha71]

Such a burning topic....True indian media....hats off scroll Media....U should come to mainstream

[@DailyZindagi]

Great people don't show off the greatness. Their work speaks.

[@bm8292]

Sir Albert Howard the father of organic movement had done his research in India, at Indore and published his findings in the acclaimed book, "An agricultural Testament" unfortunately, he is not known in the agricultural farternity in India. His Indore Method of composting was world famous then. This situation can be compared with that of Shri Nani Palkhivala, the acclaimed legal legend who is unknown today. Sorry to say we are losing our capacity to think logically. People have now come down to the level of seeking knowledge and wisdom from WhatsApp university.

[@shonak9447]

I belong to telangana... I'm just proud of You uncle and aunt... Those songs..remembered my village... My aunts and all my family still saves seeds. Thank you scroll.in😁😁😁

[@user-qy7wt2fu1h]

shravani konyala hope you will continue the same as the lady in the video protecting environment

[@abhiramreddy6356]

shravani konyala 😍👍🏻

[@aksar32456]

Hi, please get in touch with them via permacultureindia.org It’s truly a joy to see the farm and learn the principles of permaculture from them. Hats off to Narsanna sir & Padma ma’am, true inspiration!!

[@gopalakrishna9387]

With this video, I came to know a special word called permaculture. These people are taking the agriculture practices to the next level in the agriculture history. Also proud of them as it is initiated in the telangana state.

[@carralumsden8853]

Lovely seeing another female doing permaculture/farming etc. My friend and I and our fathers and brothers are also interested in PermaC for some decades now. Whilst we have/use only allotments, we would do well to venture into larger landmass to produce various tropical fruit and vegetables and introduce new recipes into the food and foodchain/supply market. Very interesting being able to use the brain and hands to produce something that feeds the world. Thank you for sharing. Peace

[@aniruddhakaryekar2390]

Liked it very much. just like my imagination .our country should be like this simple living people . we should connect to nature most imp message.

[@tanmaybalwa]

The photography of the video is just amazing. Love the use of prime lenses.

[@knowledgeworld9458]

Simply mind-blowing ! My heart felt gratitude to such wonderful people

[@anandnarayanan5557]

I can't even think about the concept of giving dislikes to the videos are uploaded by eco india. You guys are phenomenal, as a teacher I feel so overwhelmed during watching these videos, because all I wanted to do in my life is to quit routine lifestyle now.

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

your documentries made my day,the quality i really loved

[@amitghuge7476]

U guys doing great work in journalism... Keep it up... This chaannel is worth of million subscribers

[@rosefernandes3115]

Omg! I am so happy to see the couple do such great work. It's amazing. I wish I was living there. I was born and breed in India but migrated to Canada almost 50 yrs ago. Thank you to the couple that are kind enough to share their beautiful work to humanity. It's so sad to see how the WEST is trying to destroy our Planet and the EAST is trying to show us how to save the Planet. Thank U God for affordng us some people that can give us hope if nothing else.

[@teenathakur9299]

Beautiful minds..creating beautiful environment 🙏

[@LoveforVeena]

Wow they are so cool... hats off to u guyz .... this is so refreshing to watch..

[@donipranay]

Great humans. Showing humanity to plants and saving mother earth.

[@rambabuthota729]

This is in my state telangana🙌🙌

[@user-qy7wt2fu1h]

Rambabu. Thota Wow great

[@abhiramreddy6356]

Rambabu. Thota 😍👍🏻

[@amanupadhyay12]

Scroll.in you are doing a great job hats off to you all guys ....

[@pkonkisa]

Wonderful couple made for each other. Inspiring farmers and to motivate upcoming generations to become farming entrepreneurs

[@RajeshKumar-st2xw]

eco India प्रोग्राम बहुत अच्छी कोशिश है अगर इन सारे प्रोग्रामों को अगर हिन्दी मे दिखाया जाए तो मेरे जैसे बहुत सारे लोग भी इससे एक प्रेरणा ले सकते है । धन्यवाद

[@prakhyapolishetty1091]

Thank you soo much for bringing these to us. It's really inspiring and motivation to others. Thank you

[@ankursahu7704]

Salutes to both of you

[@prathapdugasani6922]

Love from Andhra Pradesh.... thanks for this video

[@tatyemmanuel1695]

Great stuff.... It shows the possibility.

[@gopalakrishnasn5311]

A very inspiring video. Live with nature and add to its richness by adopting permaculture

[@PrashantMaurya1989]

eco friendly farming... awesome work sir...

[@Deepu_ram]

I love to see those telugu guys 💕💕💕 I like forming... I love zero budget and, organic and permaculture 💞💞

[@CityIn360]

Hats off sir and mam you inspired me

[@morentalka9606]

Hats off to scroll for such nice knowledgeable and informative video news

[@ameyab.sharma5310]

So simple yet so logical

[@rawat2608]

Thanks Scroll 📜📜📜👏👏

[@samyajitsardar275]

very appreciative

[@SailajaSadineniNS]

Amma chala santhosham and u did a great job

[@indianbot0077]

Gr8...... India will become green agian

[@nigammishra7727]

Best videos...keep this going

[@syedawais1357]

Madam wonderful job you have done

[@videomemories3578]

Nice and Inspiring.

[@mariamalenta6574]

forever grateful to Narsanna Sir and Padma Ma'am for their will to pass on their knowledge to further generations and make us see for ourselves how we can contribute to building up our earth, community and ourselves as humans.

[@mariamalenta6574]

and big hug for Sammamma :)

[@HappilyIndian]

Aweeeeesome 👌👏👏👏👏🤩😍❤❤❤❤

[@CricketfanEnglish]

It's basically mixing plants & grow them to prevent insects from crop damage

[@BudgetCarnivore]

Before that happens you have to do rain water harvesting

[@dewert2]

This video is very well done.

[@sivakumarinagaraju4094]

Very interesting hearty congratulations

[@AngelinVlogs]

great..salute

[@seemamahato1108]

Educational and inspiring initiative!

[@nitishven7612]

Really need to appreciate this couple

[@ramvineeth1250]

Fantastic one.

[@SameerGudekar]

Scroll..! Hats off..!

[@ecowelldone]

Marvelous Presentation of your marvelous Work 🤗

[@parthamohan5891]

I am proud of Telengana...love from Assam❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@syedawais1357]

we all are proud of you

[@JoysFarming]

very impressive. I am from Kerala

[@aakashparida2085]

Great content!

[@goodhairwoman]

This is the sense of community India needs. Even if 4-5 people households like-minded households get together and start feeding themselves, we will not need to rely on government at all.

[@mdshaheed7804]

It inspiring a New generation

[@jairajrao6455]

Very nice, I too want do it , it's very inspiring

[@KaushalKishoreDixit]

@Scroll - how can I get in touch with these farmers? As I want to know more about how they do it. This will be a huge help!

[@Vishwa2087]

Contact : Nagendra Vardha [phone] He is my friend and he works there as well he is a Trainer who conducts workshop's

[@jayalakshmiyr8868]

@@Vishwa2087 thanks for the number. Is it possible to have the contact number of the farm owners and the location? I would like to pay a visit for sure. Thanks in advance

[@aksar32456]

Jayalakshmi Yr hi, please get in touch with them via permacultureindia.org It’s truly a joy to see the farm and learn the principles of permaculture from them. Hats off to Narsanna sir & Padma ma’am, true inspiration!!

[@jayalakshmiyr8868]

@@aksar32456 Good day. Thanks for the information and for taking your time off to answer

[@sathyamanikanta2784]

@@aksar32456 I stay in Karnataka and i want yo meet them..I really want to do something in Agriculture... When everyone say AI is our future... I feel Agriculture with AI is our future

[@AjitKumar-sc9wx]

Superb

[@lingeshgowda7484]

There is a lot of wisdom thriving in those women and community.....

[@vermavikasverma94]

Great

[@ratusajjanshetty2405]

I love my INDIA 😭😍🇮🇳🚩

[@CastleLager-lf5eu]

5:34 wow, what a beautiful artwork.

[@UshaRani-st5fc]

Good information

[@vivinvincent692]

Wow

[@krishnakanthgriddaluru8818]

Such kind of educated Farming leaders can bring permaculture and agricultural revolution in farming villages of my motherland India 🇮🇳.

[@user-wx4fo1up9e]

Nice

[@9865177863]

I Salute to madam

[@gcb6185]

Beautiful, please spread your concept like Bill Million, Geofflawton , Nammalvaar , let us grow poison free food, with healthy soil life and save every drop of rain in our land

[@NirajSingh-vb1fi]

I am from north up but india is one proud yu sir

[@stelluspereira]

Keep up the good work Perhaps the narrator ‘s volume bit low & sometimes very hard to hear, many of the videos I observed that

[@ramdevray8323]

great people

[@swethachowdary9218]

Good to hear telugu :)

[@omkarbiradar3383]

Ye hain mera bharat 🇮🇳🙏💐

[@amanforyou9493]

👌👌👌

[@paragj2008]

Hi can you add English subtitles so that other can also understand. Just a request. I am interested in visiting your farm. Once this pandemic get overs I will certainly visit your farm so that I can learn and implement it on my land .

[@paramahamsaramakrishna2429]

good sir

[@sambojuharishchary4551]

True heroes.jai jawan jai Kisan

[@yashvathmba]

Please make more video about natural farming and organic farming if it is possible visit Narayanan Reddy farm in Karnataka

[@kartikeymishra2608]

Papaya and marigold plants were nice..

[@saritagurung2065]

Greatest jobs

[@varunprakash6207]

Hatoff you Guys No chemical fertilizers The Team deserves more than a Million The Main stream Media Should trend This type of Video - Salute to Them 👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@markedwards9247]

Congratulations on a very nice video. I do wish however, that fewer people would promote permaculture as some sort of agricultural system. Although it certainly includes the way that we grow our food, it is just a part of a much deeper philosophy. A philosophy that advocates a sustainable way of life. A permanent culture. The true permaculture system advocates that a given space of land can permanently sustain us and our offspring, with an equal relationship between the land and its inhabitants. We give and take from the land in equal measure, in a symbiotic relationship that embraces natural diversity. Our natural and created waste are part of this system, as indeed our bodies are when we die. The land has sustained our bodies, so now our bodies sustain the land. Is there an example I can give, a demonstartion that such a relationship is possible ? YES YES YES, the billions of years of life that has existed on this planet, right up until one species decided it could profit from nature, or take more than it gave. It is this philosophy of embracing all of the natural diversity, not just the parts than we can use, that definitively expresses permaculture. It is the philosophy that we humans destroy the natural diversity that we as a species do not require, that is the antithesis of permaculture.

[@pranjalgoswami8672]

I was surprised to see such video made by scroll who are always busy in spreading false and negative news then I suddenly saw the DW logo on the bottom right one of the best channel I have ever come through !! Thank you that you are changing your focus !!

[@sohelranababu9711]

Power of Agriculture with women... 💜💜

[@uruvilaathakarjanan9996]

Beautiful. have you heard about AgroForestry.....?

[@veenapillai4426]

Fabulous job. I keep sharing your stories to my network on LinkedIn as influencing thiught Leadership. This is amazing.

[@udaysankarpaul4392]

Bhgc c

[@Rralljs]

Gem

[@JiThIn__Pj]

🔥

[@Xiphi47]

That's how our great forefathers carried out agriculture

[@hussainsyed2161]

My mom used to save seeds and me my mom used to do rainy season farming for vegetables in our backyard as long as I was there at home once got job outside india every thing left......😢😢

[@jagermeisterbomb1543]

the video of sammamma and her family eating rice has been used in another eco India video on "Meet the farmers who are preserving India's heirloom rice varieties one seed at a time"

[@heloisacarvalho6532]

😍😍😍😍

[@LetsChillAG]

Anyone know about song at 5: 40. If any link of this song available pls share

[@joydeepghosh1781]

Excellent, these techniques should be picked up by the rest of India. This should be sharpened fine-tuned further, using Israeli irrigation systems, alongwith polyponds, rainwater holding harvesting techniques, like the trenches, solar power, profits from agriculture should be ploughed back to boost the working capital with new good technology, with technology profits many times the investment is possible.