company is a future proofing small farmers with technology and sustainable farming practices. how the aspirational city of mumbai is fighting an uphill battle to provide a home which increasing numbers of citizens. and join wildlife rescue workers in assam who see it opened elephants and teach them how to survive in the wild. but first one of the most pressing issues over fifty percent of india s workforce is engaged in agriculture and when crops feel follows livelihoods are thrown out of balance in twenty fifteen and the one nearly thirteen thousand farm workers committed suicide against this grim reality a new company called cathy which means farming in hindi is hoping to reduce the impact of crop failure by providing farmers with a stable income our reporter christian woman brings you the story.
elephants need a lot of affection every day they care is at the i.f.a. w. wildlife rescue center spend several hours playing and cuddling with. experience has shown that otherwise they waste away. the center is also home to thirteen baby rhinos from indian hold dear next birds and various types of a most of them come from the nearby towns to run again national park. this baby elephant was rescued from a ditch and had got stuck in that sort of thing happens often traffic accidents are also common can. they be elephants don t have very robust immune systems we need to be very careful with them we used to make sure that there was always
regular apartments are simply too expensive for most people in mumbai which is india s main financial center. the reason is simple. for very simply one reason is that. the cost of that is the first of. all what i have. for. the average selling price per square meter for a standard apartment in mumbai is the equivalent of nearly twenty five hundred euros that s more than the average annual salary and clearly an affordable for most people. the only real viable of housing and effective and pride in a stick of producing affordable housing in the city is celebrating so really the
just one liter that s one aspect farmers find a great value that is greenhouse right with less water. apart from the greenhouse katie offers other services farmers in the region can get advice on taking out a loan on choosing the right fertiliser or seeds. the aim is to make harvests more reliable. the yield here is higher with outdoor farming it s very low if this were growing outdoors the crop would have been destroyed already by the rain. it would have been a total loss. so far the company has set up fifty greenhouses. katie s founder such drug who had been looking for a way to help india s farmers since he was a teenager. i wanted to make it
unoccupied. shakti vermin lives in a slum he studied economics and has an m.b.a. . he quit his job and is currently trying to earn a living running a restaurant. i going to put up with is over. and i used to but i really cannot have these foods with because it s really a big problem and mumbai needs fifty thousand new homes a year three years ago prime minister narendra modi pledged to build housing for all by twenty twenty two and ambitious scheme one that seeking to consign india s crowded slums to history. now poor living conditions also mean poor hygiene and sanitation two million children die of diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia every year and regular handwashing can go