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A dimension within Pulse Crop Cultivation

Seed Conservation & Gardening

This theme highlights the importance of conserving seeds and sustainable gardening practices, including the cultivation of chickpeas.

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The Voice Summary

In your area, a robust and deeply ingrained practice of traditional seed saving 🌾 is evident across numerous communities. Citizens are actively cultivating diverse crops such as chickpeas, lentils, paddy, and various millets, with a strong focus on carefully preserving seeds from current harvests for future planting. This widespread commitment ensures agricultural continuity and fosters local food security, demonstrating a proactive approach to sustainable farming and biodiversity. Many use ancestral methods, including natural pest deterrents, highlighting a resilient and self-reliant community focused on securing their livelihoods for the coming years. 💡

Dominant Themes

Traditional Seed Saving

Sustainable Agriculture Practices

Future Crop Cultivation

Local Food Security

Crop Diversity

Actionable Recommendations

🌿 🤝 📜Officially recognize and support traditional seed-saving practices through local agricultural programs, offering resources and platforms for farmers to continue these vital methods.
📚 🧑 🌾Facilitate knowledge exchange and workshops among farmers to share best practices in seed preservation and cultivation, especially for traditional and indigenous varieties.
🏦 🌾 🌍Explore the establishment of community-led seed banks to collectively store and maintain genetic diversity of local crops, enhancing regional food resilience.

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🌱 🤲 🌾

We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

🫘 🤲 🌱

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🗓️

We stored the chickpea seeds carefully 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 will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌰 🤲

To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🫘 🤲

To cultivate chickpeas and conserve seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

🌱 🤲 🌾

We save the seeds for planting next time.

— Kachala Choudhary

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌿

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

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌾

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 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 are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate 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 will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

🌱 🤲 🔄

They want to store the seeds of corn and wheat crops so that cultivation can continue in the future.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌰

By cultivating chickpeas, they keep its seeds.

— Sunita Kumari

🌱 🤲 🔄

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

🫘 🤲 🔄

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

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

🌾 🤲 🌱

We conserve paddy seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🗓️

I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.

— Anupama Mahanand

🌾 🤲 🌱

We conserve paddy seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🧑 🤲 🫘

We save chickpeas

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🫘 🤲

Cultivating chickpeas and also conserving them

— Sunita Kumari

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, 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

🌱 🫘 🥫

Cultivating chickpeas and preserving them.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🍽️ 🤲

We grow pulse crops, keep them for our daily consumption, and save a small amount of the remaining seeds for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

🌱 🌾 🤲

This year we will cultivate rice, keep the seeds ready to cultivate next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · 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

🌱 🤲 🌾

They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌾

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

🌱 🌾 🤲

Cultivate millet and corn and conserve the seeds.

— Sunita Kumari

🌱 🤲 🌳

We save old seeds so that they do not become extinct or disappear in the future. We save them so that they remain available in the future and can be cultivated.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

🌱 🤲 🌰

Seeds are saved by cultivating lentils.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh