vue - Scythe Project in India 2016
Connecting with Anant and Vivek Chaturvedi in Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) during my 2015 trip was a game changer in my efforts to introduce the scythe to Nepal, India, and other parts of Asia. After one day of scythe trials in the field, they recognized its potential, and Vivek suggested that the next Spring harvest of winter wheat would be a good opportunity to launch the scythe in India. During March/April 2016, he had organized demos in 30 villages covering most of the Uttar Pradesh state and beyond, reaching as far as Bilaspur (in Odisha), and Indore (in Madhya Pradesh). In one of the villages, the demo was attended by the Minister of Agriculture himself. Participants all agreed that the scythe is an appropriate alternative to a sickle. The implementation of this initiative is well on its way. While all of the scythe equipment for the demos was initially imported, by now almost all of the equipment is being made locally in India (snaths, cradles, attachment rings, peening jigs, and anvils), and only the blades are being imported. During the previous eight years, I had been searching for a willing organization (either governmental or NGO) to go forward with a project like this, and the results were disappointing. It took an independent local group to make this happen. These are committed people with honest concerns and a true vision, who fully understand the needs of the local farmers. "Thank you" to the Chaturverdis of Kanpur! I want to also give thanks to all who have contributed in various ways during my journey to get here. For this recent trip, I was joined by Sy Schotz, an organic farmer who has spent extensive time with Peter Vido's family at their farm in New Brunswick. Sy's knowledge and experience was a great contribution to this project. It is especially rewarding for me to see that the scythe has been embraced as a beneficial alternative for small farmers in India. Alexander Vido http://scytheworks.ca/SIDW.html Camera and editing by Alexander Vido
Commentaires
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Mind blown. At some point we have to acknowledge a culture that struggles to spread ideas ubiquitous everywhere else for hundreds or thousands of years suffers a disorder. There is nothing cognitively defective about Indians, part of the response this scythe garnered is a reflection of how intuitively these folks applied their naive simple machine theories to understanding the tool. A culture that spreads lives so carelessly and basic information so sparingly is worse than criminal.
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Surely this new technology will kill jobs in India
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Someone send these guys some fuckin Electric mowers and some damn solar panels.
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why not buy them a tractor?
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song?
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why doesn't merica just donate a few tractors wtf
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A tool that saves times, probably eliminates some jobs because things are now done easier and quicker. The fields can only grow certain times of the year, you can't speed that process up. Next they will introduce machines that are fully automated that will take all their jobs away. Poor countries staying poor, while the rich countries keep on getting richer.
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Incredible that there where still people who cut fields of wheat with a small, curved, knife in 2016.
It's like we are still in the stone age :-) Thank you guys for helping those farmers out with education ! -
Get your white technology out of India!
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4:00 soon to be hashish :)
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Have they invented the wheel yet? They white man has to come and fix everything.
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please dont forget to emphasize how one should hold/operate it. If one individual uses it wrongly, over time he can develop severe back-pain!
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3:12 lmao Gandhi
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damn. must be so tired squating at that age...
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i like the music
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Increased efficiency of obtaining food is going to lead to an obesity crisis in India.
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Weird how they never thought for themselves..."how can we make this process easier"?
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Awesome video bro, you have saved the backs of many people haha
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This tool exists for hundreds of years. How come nobody bothered to introduce it to these guys before?
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0:19 - That's the look of 'oh sh*t, there goes my job'
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