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    The cloudEnvironmental & Food ScarcityTraditional Forest ResourcesForest Food NutritionForaging Forest ResourcesWild Edibles Foraging
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    A dimension within Foraging Forest Resources

    Wild Edibles Foraging

    This theme explores the practice of foraging for wild greens and vegetables in the forest for nutrition.

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    In your area, citizens are highlighting the immense value of traditional forest foods and medicinal plants 🌲. Submissions consistently emphasize that these natural resources, including various greens, fruits, roots, tubers, and mushrooms, provide a highly nutritious diet, free from chemicals, and are crucial for the health and well-being of communities, particularly tribal populations. The primary challenge identified is the underutilization of these rich food sources in formal nutrition programs. However, there's a strong positive drive towards integrating these items, with many suggesting their inclusion in Public Distribution Systems (PDS) and school mid-day meals 💡 to combat malnutrition and leverage local, sustainable food options. There's also a clear desire to preserve ancestral knowledge and practices related to foraging and preparing these beneficial items.

    Dominant Themes

    Nutritious Forest Foods
    Traditional Medicinal Plants
    Inclusion in PDS and Mid-Day Meals
    Seasonal Availability of Forest Produce
    Community Dependence on Forest Resources

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🍽 🏫 💚Integrate locally sourced and traditionally significant forest foods (like specific greens, fruits, and tubers) into Public Distribution Systems and school mid-day meal programs.
    • 📢 📚 🌱Launch awareness campaigns and educational initiatives to highlight the nutritional benefits of traditional forest produce and promote sustainable foraging practices.
    • 📦 💡 🌾Explore mechanisms for processing forest produce (e.g., powdering greens) to improve shelf-life and facilitate easier distribution through existing channels.

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    🌳 🤲 🍎

    We get various greens and various fruits from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🥦

    From the forest, we also get many things as vegetables, such as

    — Kekti Tekam

    🌳 🥬 👶

    It is true that bringing vegetables and leafy greens from the forest provides nutritious food for a growing body.

    — Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🧺 ✅

    From the forest, we get leafy vegetables, tubers, mushrooms, and fruits. All these kinds of things are available.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍎

    We get various types of fruits and roots from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🥬 💪

    Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌳 🧺 🍎

    In the forest, we find greens, wild tubers, mushrooms, fruits, and roots of all kinds in every season.

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    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌿 🥣 💪

    By bringing the greens found in the forest, powdering them, and including them in PDS, they can be used as nutritious food.

    — sudhir gamanga · Birikota, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌿 🌳 💪

    Fanjan greens, Panjaniyaan greens, and Vochhateen greens from the forest are beneficial for the body.

    — Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🧺 😋

    We are getting all kinds of seasonal produce from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Lamingi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🌾

    Grains and other food items are included from the forest.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌳 🍎 💪

    We get our nutritious diet from the forest, such as Mahua fruit Doli oil in the form of fat, Kodo, Bhaddi, Kulthia, Mahua flowers, Jamun, Mahua kheer, Bhaji, etc.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🍄 🧺

    Forest food collection

    — Suna majhi · Kulusingi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🥬 🌟

    The naturally available wild forest food is highly nutritious. The forest has a large amount of leafy greens and also fruits. Pitin also has high nutritional value.

    — Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

    🌳 🧑‍🌾 🍎

    Currently, we are seeing that people are gradually obtaining the fruits, medicinal plants, greens, and nutritious food that were available in the forest.

    — Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍚

    Grains, food, and foodstuffs are included from the forest.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌳 🍄 🍽️

    They collect mushrooms and ghuhaar greens from the forests and prepare them as vegetables to eat, and within that same group.

    — MANNOO LAL BHOI · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🌳 🍎 😋

    Forest food

    — Abhimaneu Sabar

    🌳 🤲 🍎

    Forest-derived food includes fresh bamboo shoots, bamboo sago, and Kendu fruit, among others. We obtain our food from the forest.

    — S Guruteli · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 💪

    Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🍎 😋

    Forest Food

    — Abhimaneu Sabar

    🌳 🤲 🌿

    Listeners bring greens, wood, Pohri, and pootu from the forest.

    — Kekti Tekam

    🌳 🥬 😋

    We used to eat greens from the forest, including Madhuranga greens, Nautia greens, Marisa greens, and all those other types of greens.

    — Sanjukta Arukh · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha

    🌳 🥔 💪

    We Adivasi communities are communities that depend on nature, collect roots and tubers from the forests, and use them as food, which is very nutritious and also serves as medicine.

    — Ram Kumari

    🌳 🍎 🍽️

    In our forest, fruits, roots, leaves, flowers, and leafy vegetables grow naturally. There are no chemicals in them, and they are completely nutritious. It would be good to serve them for lunch.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🥔 🍽️

    Nutritious local tubers like Pitikanda, Charendakanda, and Naangalakanda, found in the forest, can be included in dishes.

    — Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🥬 💪

    Nutritious food found in the forest: Mudhi saga, Chhati saga, Bhadbhadia saga, Koila saga, Munga saga, Ghumi saga, Tartha saga.

    — Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌿 🌳 🌱

    Herbs of the forest

    — Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌿 🍽️ 💪

    The most nutritious forest foods are Kolyar Bhaji, Mokha Ki Bhaji, Segwa, etc.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌳 🍄 🍽️

    From the forest, we collect ruguda mushrooms, mudhi saag, kuiler saag, girel flowers, bhindua kadi, and so on. If all these are nutritious foods for us, they should be included in the midday meal.

    — RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 💪

    Forest products such as Jharakunduru, Pitalu Konda, and various other types of edible forest produce are available. These also serve as food for animals and birds, and consuming them provides nourishment.

    — Anirudha Marai

    🌳 🍎 🥗

    Using all the fruits, flowers, leaves, greens, and root vegetables obtained from nature's forests in lunch can provide more nutritious food.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🔎 💊

    Vitamin food in the forest. Katukola berries were found. These are Banasula, tea, Kendu.

    — Dhananjaya Harpal · Sargigora, Kalahandi, Odisha

    🍠 🍽️ 🛡️

    In the forest, there are many types of food, such as various nutritious tubers (kandha), which can be given during midday meals in schools and also protect against various diseases.

    — Deepanjali Nayak

    🌳 🌿 🍎

    Residents in the forest bushes have a business of various medicinal plants, and they benefit from it for food.

    — Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🍄 ✨ 💪

    Forest mushrooms contain nutrients.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌿 🥣 💪

    People in the village bring herbs from the jungle and eat them for their health, which is very beneficial or advantageous.

    — Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    Tungemasha, potatoes, and Panikonda are all found in the forest. If Panikonda is included in PDS and mid-day meals, then children will remain healthy by getting nutritious food.

    — Basanti · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

    🌳 🌿 ⚠️

    Generally, the forest contains many edible substances, some of which are harmful, while others are beneficial for everyone. Moreover, there are many plants in the forest that serve as food and drink.

    — Rakesh kumar Kumar

    🌳 🌿 💪

    Kolyar greens, the most nutritious forest food.

    — Kachala Choudhary

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