A dimension within PDS & Traditional Grains
This theme highlights the importance of understanding and incorporating community preferences for millets in agriculture and food programs.
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A resilient village woman nurtures her family and community through traditional farming, future planning, and the strength of women's voices in Sundargarh.
A Balangir resident cultivates their land with ancient wisdom, dreams of opening a fancy store with a loan, reflects on their unique tribal identity and ancestral jungle, and envisions their village t
By cherishing and utilizing the traditional foods and herbs found in our forests and lands, we can sustain ourselves and combat malnutrition while preserving our natural heritage.
By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.
My name is Ramesh Majhi. We cultivate millet, kodo, and arhar. These can be used as nutrition or for the PDS (Public Distribution System).
— Prabhasini Batkar · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha
Name - Madhab Majhi. In our region, a large amount of ragi, arhar, moong, and kodo millet are cultivated from the forest. It can be used as nutritious food or in the form of PDS (Public Distribution System).
— Prabhasini Batkar
Name Biru Mallick, Village Salaguda. We prefer ragi, barnyard millet, foxtail millet, and perahi.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
My name is Prashant Mallick. We like Malesikia, Kuheri, Mandia, Kangu, Perahi millets.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
Here, we grow varieties of crops like paddy, black gram, pigeon pea, Kodo millet, Little millet, Barnyard millet, and others.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Paddy, finger millet, little millet, pigeon pea, jute seeds. Village - Te Muru Pali, Malkangiri.
— Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
My name is Hemant Sa, from village Nilaji. Nutritious local forest foods should be included in PDS and also in mid-day meals. Those are Manjia, Guruji, Pasun.
— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha
Daimati Pradhani Millet and Kodo rice
— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Titlagarh, Balangir, Odisha
Daimati Pradhani Millet and Kodo rice
— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Titlagarh, Balangir, Odisha
Ragi, Foxtail Millet, Moong
— srinu salbam · MPV 54, Malkangiri, Odisha
The valuable grains of the family are: beans, finger millet, paddy, maize, horse gram, black gram. Name: Kamala Madkami Village: Ranginiguda Pedawada Malkangiri
— Trinath badanayak · Kamarpalli, Malkangiri, Odisha
My name is Prashant. Previously, I used to cultivate millet, ragi, and maize.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
We are from the tribal community, and our main food items are rice, peja (gruel/porridge), bhaji (greens/vegetables), kodo (millet), kutki (millet).
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
My name is Rama Majhi. I am from Kukurbhursi. I cultivate green gram and black gram. I save seeds for the next year. I have quality seeds.
— Anil Kumar Das · Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi, Odisha
Name: Purnachandra Pradhan. Village: Gatamaha, G.P. Bondaguda, block Nuagaon, District Kandhamal. We are cultivating green gram, mustard, and black gram as a second crop without irrigation, and we are also saving seeds.
— Sidheswar Nayak · Kandhamal, Odisha
Our traditional items are finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, black gram, paddy, all these are ours. Then there's black gram, pigeon pea, and all these things.
— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
My name is Ramesh Majhi. I have stored moong, arhar, and other seeds for cultivating a second crop.
— Prabhasini Batkar · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha
Own threshed paddy, maize, sorghum, finger millet, niger seed - these are the main ones.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
My name is Lalit Majhi, and we do zero-irrigation farming for the second crop, cultivating crops like moong, urad, and kulthi.
— Jadumani Nial · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha
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
Brundabati Saraf Most nutritious food - Millet, Maize, Gurji rice
— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Balangir, Odisha
Prapul Mallick from Keramaha village has currently started cultivating millet, jowar, foxtail millet, and corn with great effort.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
This is our rice, ragi, black gram, and horse gram for our family.
— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Kodo, my Sawa, Bajra, and Maize are grown.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
My name is Nabeshwar Mallick, from Salaguda block village. It would be good if traditional millets like Kangu, Kuheri, Mandia, and Jona, which were grown before, are brought back now.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
We belong to the tribal community whose main food is rice, pez (porridge), bhaji (greens), kodo (millet), kutki (millet).
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.
— Abhimaneu Sabar
We are people in the 'char pani' area who work based on agriculture and make a living. We mostly cultivate the Kodo Kutki crop in our village and consume it.
— Ram Maravi · Samnapur, Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
My name is Maheswar Sunani. We cultivate second crops like moong, masoor, and black gram after paddy. We also store seeds using traditional farming methods to cultivate them in the upcoming year.
— pinku sunani · Khotlabhāta, Nuapada, Odisha
We have traditional varieties: our native rice, ragi, tuana, jhudunga, palat biri, and our kangu tuana.
— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
Sir, we have millet, black gram, foxtail millet, barnyard millet, paddy, and old rice. We have all these types of grains available with us.
— gobardhan pangi
I am Sanjay, Kangu, Kueri, Mandia, and Maize are also being supplied in PDS.
— Sanjib Digal · Tikabali, Kandhamal, Odisha
Name Birpati Mallick, village Melesikia. If ragi, kodo, foxtail, and jhana millet farming is done now, it will be successful.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
Finger millet, Foxtail millet, Pearl millet
— Mamata Panigrahi
My name is Kumaraj Mallick, from Keramaha village, Baliguda block. We used to buy and sell Khōḷi, Thuḷa, seeds, Mahua, honey, and resin from the government.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
My name is Sudam Mallik, from Keramaha village, Baliguda block. If we take a loan from the government, we would buy and sell items like oil cakes, forest leaves, seeds, mahua, honey, and resins.
— Manu Digal · Kandhamal, Odisha
We have kept the people, and we have kept millet, we have kept little millet, and we have kept barnyard millet, we have kept horse gram, and Kista, and also the people.
— Sanjusabar · Khambariguda, Rayagada, Odisha
Pearl millet, maize, kodo millet, Mejri, barnyard millet, black gram, horse gram
— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Rawaki people grow crops such as kodo, kutki, sesame, and arhar, among others.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
The traditional seeds are pearl millet, smooth sorghum, and Bhadi kodo millet.
— Kachala Choudhary
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
