Gardening & Seed Preservation

We save the seeds for planting next time.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.

— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha

We save flax seeds for next year so that they can be sown in the field again.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We carefully keep the chickpea seeds 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 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

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Here, we preserve pulse seeds like black gram (urad) and pigeon pea (arhar) for planting in the next season. We mix them with ash or powdered dry neem leaves, which prevents insects. Then, in the next year, we sow those same seeds in the field. This is how we preserve them.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate 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 stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

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

— Anil Pargi

Yes, we save old seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

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

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

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.

— Selina Pangi

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

— 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 conserve paddy seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We conserve paddy seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

Yes, we are cultivating for the second time. We are preserving those seeds using traditional methods.

— Selina Pangi

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We keep seeds and grow a second crop.

— Puspanjali Nag

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 cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.

— Laxmi Sahu

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

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha