 This failure is not just a failure of one farmer, this will be a failure for the nation. Now you're in Sanim, I don't expect you to come and plant trees, you just have to support us. If a beggar is doing one sapling a week, everybody should decide how much they can do. It is a test of our humanity. Hello, Sadhguruji. Greetings. Thank you for having me here. It's wonderful to have you here, thank you for the contribution. You've made and inspiring many young people, it will be a part of it. And thank you for making this happen in such a short notice. I never expected, I was always wanting to meet you. So, Sadhguruji, the cause that you're supporting right now and your whole rally is about to be called, it's a great movement and hats off to you for bringing this up. I'm taking this initiative, you know, when I got a call for this cause, I said I'm there for it because I know the issues, the problems about it. So I have a few questions to ask, not only on this and also the questions that, you know, I always wanted to speak up and wanted to put it across to you and finally the day is here. So in our country, we forget so many important things, you know, whereas the too many important things in terms of we as people forget the minute things of knowing whatever is coming or whatever the cause is, we people do talk about it for some time and then everyone forgets about it. And I have seen for a while now, this Cauvery calling, the Cauvery calling, we have immense support from all over. So how do you amplify this and you think how can we sustain this for over twelve years? See, if we want something substantial to happen, it takes a long time, I'm not sure. Well, as you said, you know the problem. Oh, what I discovered was everybody knows what's the problem. Everybody knows what's the solution. But they need a fool to build a cat. So I'm saying everybody knows this, but they don't take it up because they know it will take up a substantial part of their life. Well, if we don't do this as a generation, we will just fail as a generation because what are we giving to the next generation? Baron soil, waterless land, what are we giving? Is this what you want to give? So now all I'm saying is, yes, I understand, now you're in cinema. I don't expect you to come and plant trees somewhere, okay? It's not even practical, it need not be done. So this is why this is a plan, which is an economic plan for the farmer. Because it's economic, he will get into it and it's soup, economically it's super successful for him. Just I met a farmer who's growing red sanders, we got red sanders cleared from the, you know, non-felling category. His trees today after twelve years are worth twenty-five crores. So he's not going to take it away in one day, he will take it every year if he takes five, six, his life is made. And he can start replanting again. So it's an endless cycle of income for the farmer and at a much higher level than what he's learning by growing grains or whatever. And in between the trees, he can still continue to do all the farming that he wants to do. There is a way to do it, that's what agroforestry is about. So because this is an economic success, it will continue to happen. Only thing is to provide quality saplings. When I say quality saplings, say our nurseries, we have the defined nurseries, now we're planning to push it to three hundred and fifty nurseries. These the defined nurseries, when we produce saplings, it will take anywhere between nine to fifteen months to produce a sapling which we transplant. All the commercial nurseries are producing these three to five months because they use a lot of urea and just make it grow. So that plant, when you transplant, the survival rate will be very, very poor because in the new land it won't survive. So if you give this kind of sapling to the farmer, you'll again push him into disaster. So to grow saplings in a responsible manner, the way it needs to be, it's very important that this is a success for the farmer, only then this will cry. Otherwise, you supporting, me supporting is not going to last. It must become an economic process. Then it will… it will… naturally the cycle will start and it will keep growing all the time. So we want to ensure that happens. This is why I'm taking the risk of asking for money which I've never done in my life publicly, all right? Because this is a very risky thing. So we set up a board, a very responsible board who'll manage it and auditing firm, everything so that we don't have the hassles of handling the money, but we need to do this. So when you say, how many… how do I keep this up? So you don't have to plant trees, you just have to support. You just have to ensure it's forty-two rupees is what we're talking about. This forty-two rupees has been arrived at by experts how this amounts to forty-two. There are saplings you can raise for twelve, fifteen rupees. There are saplings which will take two-hundred and fifty-three hundred rupees because of the duration. Some saplings are ready in twelve months, some are ready in thirty-six months. So accordingly it will cost more and there are a whole lot of things. So averaging at forty-two, if we produce two-hundred and forty-two crores saplings, only then this will be successful because now we have gone to over seven thousand villages. You know, with LAD screens displaying what is agroforestry, how it should be done, what are the different formats you can do it, the science of it, the economics of it, all this. There's a huge enthusiasm among the farmers. And the governments, both the governments Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments and also the Central Environment Ministry all are hundred percent on the pitch wanting to do what is needed to be done. We have given them five points, all of them have agreed to the five points, including a financial subsidy for the farmers for the first four years. So these two pieces are in place now. Now the thing is when the farmer enthusiasm is like this, we need to produce saplings, good quality saplings. Now I can't buy it off the market and give it to them because if it fails, because this failure is not just a failure of one farmer, this will be a failure for the nation. In protecting the soil of this country we would have failed. So we want to make sure the right kind of saplings are grown. So this growing the saplings, planting will take another one-and-a-half to two years before the actual thing goes on. Right now we have access to a certain number of saplings, which is little over a few, a couple of crores or three crores or something like that. That we will start doing in the coming year itself. But the rest has to happen, we have to grow them. So we are thinking of 350 nurseries of our own, plus thinking of training about 10,000 farmers to grow their own nurseries and make a business out of it. So that growing saplings itself can be a lucrative business for the farmer, especially rural women. In their backyard they can grow 1,000-5,000 saplings. With the household water they can do this and it can be lot of money for them. So this is how we are looking at it as an economic plan. Because it's an economic plan, it will succeed. We will make sure it succeeds. Stay with us. But Sadhguruji, like I said, you know, in today's time, people, the kind of patience that we can have, do you think they would be with us for this long, the cause that we are taking it forward and so strongly and trying to, you know, treat the root cause of the entire campaign? See, because the engagement that we are asking from them is only Portugal rupees per sapling. If people, already people have started committing, monthly I will contribute 10 trees, 100 trees, like these different people according to their capacities are doing. The beggars, a few beggars in Chennai are contributing one sapling per week, all right? So, if a beggar is doing one sapling a week, everybody should decide how much they can do. It's not for me to tell them, do this, do that. But all I am saying is, this is a test of your humanity. When three hundred thousand farmers have died, suicide, not by some natural disaster they died, suicide, over forty-seven thousand farmers have committed suicide in Cauvery Basin in the last twelve years or so. So, it is a test of our humanity. It is not something else. It is a clear test of how human are doing. Humanity should come in in this case. So, thank you for that.