A dimension within Traditional Crop Methods
Details the cultivation of crops like paddy, alongside gardening practices and the crucial role of seed saving.
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By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.
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.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.
We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
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
This year, we have cultivated paddy and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · 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
We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming 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 are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.
— 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 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
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save the chickpeas so that we can cultivate them next year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We cultivated this year. We will take and store what we harvested, and cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We have cultivated mung beans this year. Next year, we will cultivate them using saved seeds.
— 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
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 save the seeds for planting next time.
— Kachala Choudhary
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 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 have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.
— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha
We cultivate coriander, and next year we will prepare seeds again.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
By cultivating green gram, I will keep this year's green gram for next year and cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
We save flax seeds for next year so that they can be sown in the field again.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
I will cultivate and store black gram this year, and I will also save some for next year. I will cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate paddy, keep this year's harvest, and save it for the coming year. I will cultivate again and also save that for the subsequent year.
— Anupama Mahanand
We keep seeds and grow a second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
Cultivate pulse varieties and save them for the next year, and then cultivate again using traditional methods.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
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
After cultivating paddy, we will cultivate again next year.
— Anupama Mahanand
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
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