Pivot Bio has a clean alternative to chemical fertilizer that could help transform farming and reduce climate change.

Pivot Bio 有一种化学肥料的清洁替代品，可以帮助农业并减少气候化。

Chemical fertilizers and pesticides were introduced, copied from other tea farms across the world.

化学肥料和农药被引入，模仿了全球其他茶园的做法。

In the 1950s and 60s farmers started using chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

20世纪50年代和60年代，农民开始使用化学肥料和杀虫剂。

Farmers enrich the soil with natural fertilizers.

化学肥料、杀虫剂和生长激素被禁止使用。农民用天然肥料丰富土壤。

The improper disposal of waste and the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides can cause damage to the environment.

不正确的废弃物处理和过度使用化学肥料及农药会对环境造成损害。

The use of chemical fertilizers can increase crop yields in the short term, but excessive use may lead to soil degradation and environmental pollution.

化学肥料的使用期内提高作物产量，但过量使用可导致土壤退化和环境污染。

It has been proven that Low Till Farming increases harvests and reduces water use, and this method reduces the need for chemical products because there are fewer unwanted plants.

事实证明低耕农业增加了产量，减少了用水量，而且这种方法还减少了化学肥料的使用，因为地面上不要的植物少了。

About 40 community seed banks have been created across the length and breadth of India, places where these have been created farmers are not in distress because the biggest cost today is seeds and chemicals.

印度各地已经建立了约40个社区种子银行， 这些种子银行建立的地方，农民没有陷入困境， 因为如今最大的开支是种子和化学肥料。

But while chemical fertilizers, careful breeding, and new technology have made farmers able to grow massive amounts of corn, government policy has also played a significant role by heavily thumbing the scale in incentivizing what crops farmers choose to grow.

但是，尽管化学肥料、精心育种和新技术使农民够种植大量的玉米，政府政策也通过大力倾斜天平来激励农民选择种植哪些作物，从而发挥了重要作用。