Environmental Documentary about Farming Methods
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General)Transcript
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meet banal. He comes from a long line of cotton farmers in dark, a rural district in the west of India with just a few acres of land inherited from his father. Panel is continuing the family tradition of cotton farming only when he took over from his father 20 years ago, he began adopting new methods of farming, making use of modern chemical fertilisers and pesticides that were not available to the previous generations of local cotton farmers. But before long banal began to experience the loss of nutrients in his land soil in order to yield an acceptable crop, his water consumption increased dramatically. Despite his efforts, his cotton harvest was decreasing season after season, so was his income.