Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
शुभेंदु शर्मा: परसात वनराई कशी फुलवावी
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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and acres of area,
is just two years old.
केवळ २ वर्षं जुनी आहे.
of my own house.
वनराई आहे.
सकाळी जाग येते,
of these forests professionally.
निर्माण करतो.
मदत केली आहे.
where animals live together.
राहतात अशी वेगळी जागा नव्हे.
of our urban existence.
एक भाग असू शकते.
that you just can't walk into it.
चालूही शकणार नाही.
how big or small they are.
आहेत हि गोष्ट अलहिदा.
we live in today was forest.
त्याच्या बहुतांशी भागात वनराई होती
on those forests,
आपली शहरं वसवली,
to nature as well,
भाग आहोत,
other species on the planet.
प्रजातीसुद्धा त्याचा भाग आहेत.
our natural habitat.
आवास राहिला नाही.
जणांसाठी आता तसं नाही.
these forests professionally --
वनराई व्यावसायिक तत्वावर निर्माण करतो -
natural resources into products.
करायचं हे मी शिकलो.
out of a rubber tree,
- एक उत्पादन - बनवतो
become a natural resource again.
स्रोतांमध्ये रूपांतरित होवू शकत नाहीत
into an irreversible state.
प्रक्रिया करतो.
works in a totally opposite way.
विरुद्ध दिशेने होते.
by bringing elements together,
एकत्रीकरणाने होते,
become a natural resource again.
नैसर्गिक स्रोत बनतात.
in the backyard of my own house.
I worked with nature,
माझी पहिलीच वेळ होती,
in 25 cities across the world.
अशा ७५ वनराई फुलवल्या.
needed to make a forest
करण्यासाठी लागणारा प्रत्येक घटक
these elements together
आणायचे असतात
करू द्यायचं असतं.
सुरुवात करतो.
it becomes compact --
available around,
the capacity to hold water,
like peat or bigas,
यासारखं पाणी शोषणारं साहित्य,
and it stays moist.
तिच्यात ओल राहु शकते.
sunlight and nutrition.
पोषण लागतं.
any nutrition in it?
directly to the soil.
मिसळत नाही.
सूक्ष्मजीव मिसळतो.
in the soil naturally.
घटकांची निर्मिती करतात.
we have mixed in the soil,
is eat and multiply.
वृद्धिंगत व्हायचं असतं.
tree species of the place.
मूळ प्रजातींचे सर्वेक्षण करतो
नाहीत हे आम्ही कसं ठरवतो
before human intervention is native.
तद्देशीयच होतं.
सर्वेक्षण करतो
of a natural forest.
उपवनांचं सर्वेक्षण करतो.
existing there a long time ago.
बीज आणि लाकूड पाहण्यासाठी
poems and literature from the place,
साहित्याचं संशोधन करतो,
belonging there.
येण्यासाठी.
करतो:
tree layer and canopy layer.
of each tree species in the mix.
प्रजातीची टक्केवारी ठरवतो.
of fruit-bearing trees.
प्रमाण वाढवतो.
a lot of birds or bees,
आकर्षित करते,
wild evergreen forest.
सदाहरित रान असू शकतं.
and germinate saplings out of them.
रोपं तयार करतो.
belonging to the same layer
vertical space when they grow tall.
जागेसाठी त्यांच्यात स्पर्धा सुरु होईल
एकमेकांच्या जवळ करतो
a thick layer of mulch,
पालापाचोळा पसरतो,
the soil stays moist.
जमीन ओली राहते
while it's freezing outside.
जमिनीत हवा खेळती राहते.
can penetrate into it easily,
सहज शिरु शकतात,
seem like it's growing,
नाहीये असं वाटतं,
throughout this network of roots.
in the vicinity of a tree,
the nutrition to the tree.
ते पोषण पोहोचवतात.
has a healthy fungal network.
अश्या बुरशीची जाळी आहे.
फुलायला सुरुवात होते.
आम्ही तिला पाणी देत राहतो--
we water the forest.
आम्ही पाणी देतो.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
फक्त आमच्या झाडांसाठी ठेवायचं आहे,
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
सूर्यप्रकाशाला प्रतिबंध करते.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
त्यांनासुद्धा सूर्यप्रकाशाची गरज असते.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
आणि अखेरीस ते देणं बंद करतो.
and sometimes even dark.
आणि कधीकधी गडददेखील.
falls on this forest floor,
वनराईच्या जमिनीवर पडतं,
can grow still bigger.
अजून वाढू शकते.
growing exponentially.
themselves again and again --
वारंवार करणार आहेत --
a 100-year-old forest
वाटणारी वनराई निर्माण करतो
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shubhendu Sharma - Eco-entrepreneurShubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests.
Why you should listen
Industrial engineer Shubhendu Sharma was working at Toyota in India when he met Japanese forest expert Akira Miyawaki, who'd arrived to plant a forest at the factory, using a methodology he'd developed to make a forest grow ten times faster that normal. Fascinated, Sharma interned with Miyawaki, and grew his first successful forest on a small plot behind a house.
Today, his company Afforestt promotes a standardized method for seeding dense, fast-growing, native forests in barren lands, using his car-manufacturing acumen to create a system allowing a multilayer forest of 300 trees to grow on an area as small as the parking spaces of six cars -- for less than the price of an iPhone. Afforestt has helped grow forests at homes, schools and factories. Sharma seen improvement in air quality, an increase in biodiversity -- and the forests even generate fresh fruit. Afforestt is at work on a platform that will offer hardware probes to analyze soil quality, allowing the company to offer step-by-step instructions for anyone who wants to grow a native forest anywhere in the world.
Shubhendu Sharma | Speaker | TED.com