Rural Foodways

Traditional agriculture

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Traditional agriculture

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

Traditional agriculture and heritage

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

We farm using traditional methods.

— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Farming

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Agriculture farming

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Farming and agriculture

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We farm using the old method.

— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

I will do traditional farming.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

I will do traditional farming.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Traditional farming, meaning Yudung, Pandala, Janana, maize, finger millet, and so on.

— James

We will do farming.

— Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They farm using plows pulled by oxen, practicing traditional farming where they sow and grow old varieties, and now they also sow some new hybrid varieties.

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

To do animal husbandry and agriculture.

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Record it in 15 seconds. Yes, I practice traditional farming. I irrigate my fields with my oxen, plow them, and use organic manure from my animals.

— Vasudev Katara · Bichiwara, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

Can do farming

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

My ancestors used to emphasize farming using organic methods.

— Madan Hantal · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha

They were cultivating paddy using organic methods or traditional soil methods.

— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

Food, festival, traditional agriculture, traditional medicine etc

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.

— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha

Sawa, Medo, Mijhri are our traditional crops, which our ancestors used to cultivate by plowing with bullocks and a plough. They consumed these crops throughout the year and saved seeds in their homes for the next year's sowing. We still practice farming today.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our ancestors generally followed traditional farming methods using cow dung manure.

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

We are known to practice irrigated farming, and we also do traditional farming.

— Vimala

Even today, we farm with a plough and oxen and earn our livelihood. Since ancient times, our ancestors have ploughed fields with a plough and oxen, and sow only the seeds preserved at home, such as kurthi, sawa, medo, and mijhri.

— Ram Kumari

Home farming

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Home farming

— Sunita Kumari

We do traditional farming. We save rain-fed seeds and cultivate crops like sorghum and chickpea.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

From the very beginning, we cultivate a second crop without irrigation using old methods and traditional seeds. The method of storing these seeds is also traditional, and our fields are ploughed using bullocks.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Old seeds should be preserved using organic fertilizer, and traditional farming should be practiced following natural methods. This can benefit the agricultural sector.

— Mohan AHARI · Sarera, Udaipur, Rajasthan

Want to do farming

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

But we need to protect the traditional farming that was done before.

— Niranjan Bisi · Bissamcuttack, Rayagada, Odisha

We are a tribal community, we farm using ploughs and bullocks, and we sustain our lives. We clear forests and bushes to make fields, and we cultivate sawa, medo, mijhri, and maize, which were grown by our ancestors, and we also preserve their seeds.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We do mixed farming

— Kachala Choudhary

Our ancestors used to farm with plows.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

Yes, we practice traditional farming and also conserve indigenous seeds.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

Yes, on our fallow fields, even without irrigation, we grow other crops and use traditional seeds, ploughing and sowing with oxen according to old methods.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Farming native sorghum

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.

— Laxmi Sahu

I am a farmer. Our father, grandfather, and uncles used to cultivate using traditional methods. They used to farm without fertilizer and without chemicals. And that farming was good for crops like horse gram and ragi.

— Parikshit Majhi

Yes, they certainly conduct their business, adhering to conservation through traditional farming methods and achieving development by farming through reliable means.

— Rakesh kumar Kumar