Paddy Seed Preservation

They protect and maintain TC and paddy seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

And they keep the seeds safe in their old earthen storage.

— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

Wheat seeds are carefully stored and preserved.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They store chickpea seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They keep Sawa Mejhari seeds.

— अमर जीत · Churk, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

For seed preservation, we store the seeds in bamboo storage.

— Kachala Choudhary

Peas and chickpea seeds are kept

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari

Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.

— Vijay kanesh

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

The seed is traditionally preserved.

— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand

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

— Sunita Kumari

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They cultivate mustard and preserve its seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Anil Pargi

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

Here, rain-fed crops are barley, green gram, and maize, and their seeds are stored.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Cultivate millet and corn and conserve the seeds.

— Sunita Kumari

To cultivate chickpeas and conserve seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, we save old seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

— Vimala

Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.

— Selina Pangi

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, we keep sorghum seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, 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

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Peas preserve pea seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

By cultivating chickpeas, they keep its seeds.

— Sunita Kumari