Seeds for Sustenance

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

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

— Anita Punem

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

For our family, the most valuable seeds are pulse seeds, paddy seeds, etc.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Vimala

The seeds we grow in pulse crops, we keep for our convenience to eat, and some we sell so that we can get some profit. And some of the crop we keep for the coming.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

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

Yes, pulses are cultivated in this. According to our ancestors, we also preserve seeds.

— Jagannath Baraik · Bayang, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand

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

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We preserve the pulse crops that we have received from our ancestors.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya 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

By cultivating pulses, we will use them so that we can eat the pulses and save a small amount for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

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

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

We farm at our home and manage our household with it. We cultivate pigeon pea and other pulses with low water, and also sow barley. These require less water, and we also save them for the next year. This way, we preserve the seeds.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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 the seeds for planting next time.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

We conserve paddy 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

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We will cultivate pulse crops, specifically batri and lakhri, so that we can use them as food in our daily lives, and the remaining seeds...

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

We will cultivate pulses, which we will include in our nutritional diet, and save a small amount for storage for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We conserve paddy seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.

— Puspanjali Nag

Yes, we cultivate barnyard millet and finger millet and also conserve seeds.

— Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our precious seed jowar, urad

— Kachala Choudhary

Here, we cultivate paddy, sawa, medon, and mijhri. We store sawa, medon, and mijhri at home for sowing in the next year. Additionally, among pulses, we have kurthi and baturi, which we also store and sow the following year.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They conserve the market, corn cultivation, and seeds.

— Sunita Kumari

Yes, we save old seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary