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    Home Gardening & Seeds

    This theme discusses seed saving and crop cultivation, including specific crops like chickpeas, within both farming and gardening contexts.

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    In your agricultural communities, farmers are actively engaged in the widespread practice of traditional seed saving and reuse 🌾. This vital practice encompasses a diverse range of crops, including various pulses (like moong, urad, gram, chickpeas), grains (paddy, rice, millet, corn), and even some vegetables (bitter gourd, ridge gourd). The submissions consistently highlight the farmers' commitment to cultivating second crops and preserving seeds from their own harvest for future planting, often emphasizing the continuation of ancestral farming methods 🌱. This self-reliant approach ensures sustained cultivation cycles, promotes biodiversity, and supports household consumption and livelihood, demonstrating a strong foundation of local agricultural sustainability 👨‍🌾.

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    Traditional Seed Saving
    Second Crop Cultivation
    Crop Diversity and Preservation
    Sustainable Agricultural Practices

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🏦 🌿 💡Explore opportunities to support and formalize community-level seed banks that can further secure and share these traditional and locally adapted seeds.
    • 🧑 🤝 🧑Facilitate platforms for farmers to exchange knowledge and best practices regarding traditional seed preservation and diversified cropping systems.
    • 📝 🔬 🌾Initiate documentation and research efforts to catalog the diverse indigenous crop varieties and traditional seed conservation techniques practiced in the region, ensuring their long-term recognition and viability.

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    ODISHA, INDIA67 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA25 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA12 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA6 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA3 voices

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    🌱 🤲 🔄

    This year, we will cultivate moong, urad, and gram, save the seeds, and cultivate those same seeds again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    This year, we have cultivated green gram, black gram, and chickpeas. We will save the seeds to cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🫘 🤲 🌱

    We save the chickpeas so that we can cultivate them next year.

    — Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    For the second crop, we cultivate seeds such as moong, urad, and arhar. We save those seeds to cultivate them again the following year.

    — RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🪴

    We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

    — Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🗓️

    We stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.

    — Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    This year, we have cultivated paddy and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    We have cultivated mung beans this year. Next year, we will cultivate them using saved seeds.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We save the seeds for planting next time.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌱 🤲 🌱

    We cultivate for a second time. Then, we personally collect and save those seeds so that we can cultivate again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🌾 🤲

    This year we will cultivate rice, keep the seeds ready to cultivate next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    This year we have cultivated paddy. We will save the seeds and cultivate paddy next year as well.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating paddy this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate next year. No

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Well, I cultivated black gram and chickpeas this year. I will save the seeds and cultivate them next year as well.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌱

    When we cultivate for the second time, we save those seeds from the produce itself to cultivate again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate all the Karuna bitter gourd seeds this year, collect them for next year, and cultivate them again, just like paddy and moong.

    — Anupama Mahanand

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We do farming. We save some seeds beforehand and then cultivate. This way, we get many crops, including green gram, black gram, and pigeon pea.

    — Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🧺 🌱

    We cultivated this year. We will take and store what we harvested, and cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🫘 🤲 🔄

    Cultivate pulse varieties and save them for the next year, and then cultivate again using traditional methods.

    — Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.

    — Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🍽️ 🤲

    We grow pulse crops, keep them for our daily consumption, and save a small amount of the remaining seeds for the next crop.

    — Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🤲 🗓️

    I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.

    — Anupama Mahanand

    🌱 🤲 🔁

    There, we cultivate a second crop, Kulthi beans (junga type). The seeds are saved throughout the year, and the same crop is cultivated the following year.

    — Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🗓️

    Here, we cultivate paddy, sawa, medon, and mijhri. We store sawa, medon, and mijhri at home for sowing in the next year. Additionally, among pulses, we have kurthi and baturi, which we also store and sow the following year.

    — Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    By cultivating green gram, I will keep this year's green gram for next year and cultivate again.

    — Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🧑‍🌾 🌾

    We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    This year, we will cultivate green gram, black gram, and chickpea, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year. It will come in three months, in three months it has been given, it's a unique crop.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    At Dhankaathi Sela, they call us Sethi. We will sow green gram, mustard, and chickpeas. Whatever we sow, we will save its seeds and cultivate it again next year.

    — Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🍽️ 🌾

    We will cultivate pulses, which we will include in our nutritional diet, and save a small amount for storage for the next crop.

    — Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🌾Green Gram Farming49 voices
    🌳Seed Saving Practices34 voices
    🫘Traditional Pulse Farming26 voices
    🧑‍🌾Organic & Traditional Farming22 voices
    🌱Chickpea Cultivation & Preservation11 voices
    🥣Lentil Crop Conservation8 voices