A dimension within Crop Cultivation & Storage
Focuses on the importance of preserving seeds for future agriculture and food security.
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We carefully save seeds from our diverse crops like chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, ensuring we can grow them again next year and maintain our livelihood.
By preserving our traditional, rain-fed seeds and planting them with care, we ensure food for our families and fodder for our animals.
By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.
Our ancestors taught us to protect our traditional crop seeds using natural methods, ensuring food for the next year.
We conserve paddy seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve paddy seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They conserve TC and paddy seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
In our region, we save and conserve our local seeds such as indigenous oilseed seeds, indigenous pulse seeds, and paddy seeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.
— Vimala
We save seeds at our location and keep them for our family. And saving old seeds in a traditional way is our
— Anil Pargi
Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.
— Vijay kanesh
Yes, we cultivate barnyard millet and finger millet and also conserve seeds.
— Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They want to store the seeds of corn and wheat crops so that cultivation can continue in the future.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We save stable seeds and kuluth seeds are valuable for our family. We have old seeds like millet, kuluth, moong. We sell them and use them as food.
— Basanti · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha
They keep wheat and barley seeds.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.
— Selina Pangi
Yes, we save old seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
Cultivate millet and corn and conserve the seeds.
— Sunita Kumari
Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we keep sorghum seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We store black gram, green gram, finger millet, horse gram, foxtail millet, and pearl millet for future cultivation.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
They keep Sawa Mejhari seeds.
— अमर जीत · Churk, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Precious young seeds, along with paddy and wheat, are remaining, which should be maintained every year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Nature preserves the entire seeds. We also cultivate and sow what our ancestors were sowing, and preserve it as seeds.
— Ram Maravi
They protect and maintain TC and paddy seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
For seed preservation, we store the seeds in bamboo storage.
— Kachala Choudhary
They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve our local seeds ourselves.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
Yes, I collect my own seeds. Mung and Black Gram are the most valuable seeds for our family. I have horse gram, black gram, bajra (pearl millet) and Mugeisal rice as old seeds. For us...
— gadadhar dash
Our family members save local seeds, among which the most precious seeds for us are native paddy seeds and combustion.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our tribal people will conserve seeds of Kangu, Biri, Mandia, Chimba, Kakodi, Kumuda, Kalata, Sarukanda, Judum, Bhadasembi.
— Krushna Sisa · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We store our own seeds ourselves. Especially for us, Kandul Kandul seed is very important for our family.
— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
Our ancestors have been cultivating Kodo, Barnyard, Foxtail, Finger millet, Horse gram, and Barley since ancient times, which are very nutritious. We always preserve their seeds and cultivate them every year.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save the seeds for planting next time.
— Kachala Choudhary
We store the seeds of ridge gourd, hyacinth beans, bottle gourd, water chestnut, bitter gourd, and sponge gourd at home and cultivate them annually.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
They save seeds: millet, beans, paddy, horse gram, and black gram, from Damuni Nayak village, Dama Pata, Malkangiri.
— Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
