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    The cloudTraditional Farming PracticesTraditional Pulse FarmingTraditional Seed PreservationSeed Saving & CultivationGreen Gram CultivationSeed Saving Traditions
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    A dimension within Green Gram Cultivation

    Seed Saving Traditions

    Focuses on the practice and importance of saving seeds for agriculture and crop cultivation.

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    Nearby, the main topic is the cultivation of a second crop, with a strong emphasis on seed preservation and utilizing traditional farming methods. Many residents are committed to saving their own seeds for subsequent planting, ensuring crop diversity and self-sufficiency 💧. While challenges like limited irrigation are implicitly present, the community's proactive approach to seed saving and adherence to ancestral practices points towards a resilient and sustainable agricultural system 💡. This focus on homegrown seed solutions demonstrates a community deeply connected to its land and its heritage 🛣️.

    Dominant Themes

    Second Crop Cultivation
    Seed Preservation and Saving
    Traditional Farming Methods
    Rain-fed Agriculture
    Pulse Crop Diversity

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    • 🏦 🌱 🤝Support and promote local seed banks that preserve and distribute traditional and climate-resilient seeds.
    • 🧑 🏫 🌾Develop and offer workshops on advanced traditional seed saving techniques to enhance crop yields and diversity.
    • 💧 📈 📝Investigate and document the specific benefits and challenges of rain-fed second crop cultivation in the region to inform future agricultural policies.

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    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save Your Seeds for the Next Season's Harvest

    By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save Your Seeds, Grow a Second Crop

    After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Preserve Your Seeds, Cultivate Diversity

    We carefully save seeds from our diverse crops like chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, ensuring we can grow them again next year and maintain our livelihood.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Grow a Second Crop: Use Your Own Seeds

    By utilizing old seeds from their fields and selecting water-efficient varieties, farmers in Kharod ensure food security with a vital second crop.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA77 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA17 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA11 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA10 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA3 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA2 voices

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    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating a second crop. In our second crop, we are farming by saving seeds of chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, and applying manure using our traditional farming methods.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔁

    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

    🌾 🧑‍🌾 🤲

    In the second crop, in rural areas, crops such as chickpeas, lentils from Surat, and pigeon peas are cultivated. Their seeds are also preserved.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🫘 🤲

    For the second crop in rural areas, chickpea, moong, lentil, and pigeon pea are cultivated, and their seeds are conserved.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    In rural areas, chickpeas, pigeon pea, and lentils are cultivated as a second crop. Their seeds are also preserved.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 🫘

    We cultivate a second crop and safely store our own mung bean seeds.

    — Anangaprabha Bhoi · Bangomunda, Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    If you ask about cultivating a second crop in our region, we cultivate mustard, horse gram, and junga. We will save these seeds for next year's crop.

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

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🔄 🌾

    Yes, we are cultivating a second crop. We are growing lentils, moong, kalath, and their seeds are also in their traditional way.

    — Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    In the second crop, chickpea, moong dal, masoor dal, and arhar dal seeds are also conserved.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🧑‍🌾 🫘 📦

    Performs a second cultivation. Cultivates pulse crops such as lentils, chickpeas, and paddy. Stores them.

    — Priti majhi

    🌾 🌱 🤲

    In the second crop, masoor dal and arhar dal seeds are also preserved.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 🔄

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

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

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 ♻️

    We cultivate green gram as a second crop every year and keep it as seeds. We cultivate it every year because we incorporate it into the soil after paddy cultivation.

    — Sastensh khura · Khatiguda, Nabarangapur, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 🤲

    After the paddy crop, they plant the Tīvra lentil crop, and they also preserve the pulse crop and seeds.

    — vijay malhotra · Behla, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

    🫘 🌱 🔄

    I am interested in cultivating a second crop. And we have stored pulse seeds. Moong seeds, moong, black gram, etc.

    — Sushil Nanda · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 ✨ 🌾

    We will do the second cultivation of gram and mustard. We keep good seeds, ensure proper soil, and provide fertilizer. We will also do separate cultivation. We always store good seeds for proper farming.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We keep seeds and grow a second crop.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    I have selected and stored chickpea, black gram, and green gram seeds for cultivating a second crop.

    — TRILOCHAN BAG · Borigumma, Koraput, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    Every year, after the crop harvest, I cultivate moong (green gram) in the second crop season. For this, I save my harvested crop as seeds for the next year.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, 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

    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    When we store farmer's seeds, we sow them in the field during the second cultivation.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌱

    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

    🌱 🫘 ✨

    For the second crop, we also cultivate horse gram, black gram, pigeon pea, and chickpea.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 🌧️

    I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 🏡

    After harvesting the paddy, we cultivate crops like moong, urad, chana, and masoor in that field without irrigation. We save these for our home. We then prepare the soil there for further cultivation.

    — swornalata nayak · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha

    💾Pulse Seed Preservation44 voices
    🌧️Rainfed Second Crops24 voices
    🌱General Crop Cultivation23 voices
    🌿Traditional Seed Saving22 voices
    🌰Lentil and Legume Farming20 voices
    🌾Dryland Pulse Farming17 voices