Local Food Grains

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, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.

— Vimala

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...

— gadadhar dash

Precious seeds: Pearl millet, Black gram, Sorghum, Bhaadi Kodo millet, Barnyard millet, Bati.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

The most valuable seeds for our family are pulses and oilseeds.

— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.

— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha

Jowar, Bhadi, and Kodo were precious seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

Our family members save local seeds, among which the most precious seeds for us are native paddy seeds and combustion.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Yes, we save seeds, and for our family, the main pulse is valuable seed.

— Anita Punem

Jowar are precious seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Our precious seed is sorghum.

— Kachala Choudhary

We store our own seeds ourselves. Especially for us, Kandul Kandul seed is very important for our family.

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

Sorghum are precious seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

Our invaluable grains are Sorghum and Pearl Millet.

— Kachala Choudhary

We have inherited the seeds of Bhaadi, Kodra, Bati, Jowar.

— Kachala Choudhary

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, I am also protecting. Moong, urad, and horse gram seeds are valuable for the family.

— anita khora · Sirsi, Koraput, Odisha

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

And our local seeds are paddy, jowar, and among pulses there is tur, and groundnut, so we rely on our local seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

Our ancestors have been cultivating Kodo, Barnyard, Foxtail, Finger millet, Horse gram, and Barley since ancient times, which are very nutritious. We always preserve their seeds and cultivate them every year.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Millet, sorghum, are the most special seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Among those seeds, bean seeds are very important for us. Name - Manku Mandi. Village Kudumulugumma.

— jitendra khila · kudumulugumma, Malkangiri, Odisha

We save seeds at our location and keep them for our family. And saving old seeds in a traditional way is our

— Anil Pargi

The rice crop we cultivate, the valuable horse gram of our family; our ancestors have provided us with green gram, black gram, horse gram, and finger millet.

— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha

The oldest seeds we have. Millet, foxtail millet, horse gram, green gram, lentils.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

We have the oldest seeds of pulses, oilseeds, and rice that we have preserved.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

This seed was received from our ancestors, which we save.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We cultivate a second crop. The valuable seed of our family is Horse gram. Our ancestors have given us Green gram, Black gram, Horse gram, and Finger millet. We follow the farming methods of our ancestors.

— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha

We conserve paddy seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, we keep sorghum seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

For our family, the most cherished seed is the bean seed. Our ancestors also used to cultivate it. We have been continuing this tradition. Preserve it.

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

Precious young seeds, along with paddy and wheat, are remaining, which should be maintained every year.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh