A dimension within Mahua & Medicinal Plants
This theme explores the significance of agricultural seeds, legumes like moong urad, and mahua products for food and community livelihoods.
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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
Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.
— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
We will give mahua products to school children, pregnant mothers, and everyone. Then, it will be good for us and our benefit.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
If we make and sell herbal medicine from the forest, we can sustain the family along with community resources.
— Anirudha Marai
For our family, the most valuable seeds are pulse seeds, paddy seeds, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our precious seed jowar, urad
— Kachala Choudhary
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...
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— gadadhar dash
The most valuable seeds for our family are pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand
Yes, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.
— Vimala
The seeds we grow in pulse crops, we keep for our convenience to eat, and some we sell so that we can get some profit. And some of the crop we keep for the coming.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We cultivate pulse crops, which we keep for our own consumption, sell in the market, and also save for seeds.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Yes, I am also protecting. Moong, urad, and horse gram seeds are valuable for the family.
— anita khora · Sirsi, Koraput, Odisha
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
To create permanent wealth by selling village resources such as date palm fruits, berries, char fruits, mahua, sal seeds, ground gourd, and medicine.
— Anirudha Marai
We will cultivate pulse crops, specifically batri and lakhri, so that we can use them as food in our daily lives, and the remaining seeds...
— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh
Yes, we save seeds, and for our family, the main pulse is valuable seed.
— Anita Punem
After we harvest the paddy, we cultivate chickpeas, moong, urad, and gudasua here. We also eat it, and we sell it to sustain our family.
— Parikshit Majhi
We store our own seeds ourselves. Especially for us, Kandul Kandul seed is very important for our family.
— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
If our group receives 20,000 rupees, we will grow traditional vegetables in our fields, sell some to increase our income, and eat some with our family. This will save us the cost of market vegetables and provide us with pure and fresh vegetables.
— Rupesh Maravi
Sal seeds and Mahua seeds are used for selling.
— Kekti Tekam
Our family collects broom grass from the forest, bundles it, and sells it in the market. The profit earned will be used to sustain our family, purchase other essential items, fund our children's education, and for similar needs.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
We save seeds at our location and keep them for our family. And saving old seeds in a traditional way is our
— Anil Pargi
From the forest, we bring mahua and mahua seeds.
— Kekti Tekam
We will produce batri and tivra, from which we can increase our income and save it to re-sow it.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We used to cultivate various crops extensively. Additionally, I cultivated mustard, moong bean, guava, horse gram, etc. All these seeds are important for my family.
— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our family members save local seeds, among which the most precious seeds for us are native paddy seeds and combustion.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We will collect vegetables available in the village, sell them in the market, establish a community group, and support our family.
— Anirudha Marai
We can bring Mahula's char tendu from the forest and use it in food and also give it to children.
— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
For pulse cultivation, we will grow a double crop, keeping a little for eating and selling the remaining seeds in the market at market price, so that we get a little income.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
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 tribal people bring herbs from the forest to treat many diseases, for the well-being of people.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We have inherited the seeds of Bhaadi, Kodra, Bati, Jowar.
— Kachala Choudhary
This is our rice, ragi, black gram, and horse gram for our family.
— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Black millet is a valuable grain for our family.
— Nilkantha Nayak · Malkangiri, Odisha
Black millet is a valuable grain for our family.
— Nilkantha Nayak · Malkangiri, Odisha
Our royal forefathers used to cultivate Birahi, Kulut, Mukh, Deshoris, and Badam in their lands. And all these seeds are very important for us.
— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha
Yes, those of us who come and conserve seeds like Marha, Kuti, Kutki.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We have traditional moong and urad dal. We cultivate them generation after generation. I will tell you what we have preserved.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
