A dimension within Seed Sovereignty
Focuses on the preservation of traditional farming practices and heritage seeds, with a specific mention of mustard.
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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.
Our ancestors taught us to protect our traditional crop seeds using natural methods, ensuring food for the next year.
By preserving our traditional, rain-fed seeds and planting them with care, we ensure food for our families and fodder for our animals.
The seed is traditionally preserved.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
They cultivate mustard and preserve its seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Precious young seeds, along with paddy and wheat, are remaining, which should be maintained every year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We conserve paddy seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
By cultivating mustard, its seeds are protected and maintained.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They conserve TC and paddy seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Preserve mustard seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They sow TC mustard and keep its seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve paddy seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Wheat seeds are carefully stored and preserved.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Preserve mustard seeds.
— Sunita Kumari
They keep wheat and barley seeds.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya 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
And they keep the seeds safe in their old earthen storage.
— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
They keep Sawa Mejhari seeds.
— अमर जीत · Churk, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
This seed was received from our ancestors, which we save.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.
— Selina Pangi
Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.
— Vijay kanesh
They protect and maintain TC and paddy seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Local seeds should be preserved. Just like the most precious seed in your family, which has been inherited through old traditions, it should be kept safe. It will be useful in the future and does not spoil quickly.
— Anil Pargi · Maliya Dokar, Banswara, Rajasthan
We cultivate local mustard and preserve it.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Peas preserve pea seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we save old seeds.
— 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
Traditionally, seeds are preserved in a way that is called Bandhi in Santali and Dhanpura or Chalpura or Kurthipura in Bengali.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Lentil seeds are preserved after cultivation.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
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 save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
