Food Grains & Pulses

The rice crop we cultivate, the valuable horse gram of our family; our ancestors have provided us with green gram, black gram, horse gram, and finger millet.

— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha

We have kept the people, and we have kept millet, we have kept little millet, and we have kept barnyard millet, we have kept horse gram, and Kista, and also the people.

— Sanjusabar · Khambariguda, Rayagada, Odisha

And our local seeds are paddy, jowar, and among pulses there is tur, and groundnut, so we rely on our local seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We store black gram, green gram, finger millet, horse gram, foxtail millet, and pearl millet for future cultivation.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

Precious seeds: Pearl millet, Black gram, Sorghum, Bhaadi Kodo millet, Barnyard millet, Bati.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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 have inherited the seeds of Bhaadi, Kodra, Bati, Jowar.

— Kachala Choudhary

We cultivate a second crop. The valuable seed of our family is Horse gram. Our ancestors have given us Green gram, Black gram, Horse gram, and Finger millet. We follow the farming methods of our ancestors.

— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha

Our precious seed jowar, urad

— Kachala Choudhary

This is our rice, ragi, black gram, and horse gram for our family.

— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

They save seeds: millet, beans, paddy, horse gram, and black gram, from Damuni Nayak village, Dama Pata, Malkangiri.

— Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

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

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

— Puspanjali Nag

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

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Yes, I am also protecting. Moong, urad, and horse gram seeds are valuable for the family.

— anita khora · Sirsi, Koraput, Odisha

The valuable grains of the family are: beans, finger millet, paddy, maize, horse gram, black gram. Name: Kamala Madkami Village: Ranginiguda Pedawada Malkangiri

— Trinath badanayak · Kamarpalli, Malkangiri, Odisha

Yes, I am collecting seeds: finger millet, barnyard millet, foxtail millet, little millet, beans.

— Prasanna Pradhan

Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds. For example, horse gram, Kodo millet, little millet, finger millet, and black gram are zero-irrigation crops.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

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

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and conserve seeds like millet, madia, ragi, kulthi, kodo, kutki.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

Here, we cultivate Sawa, Medon, Mujhri, Kodo, and pulses using the 'Batririri' method. We also store the seeds at home for the following year and then re-sow them in the field; this practice is a legacy from our ancestors.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We conserve paddy seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

Name: Purnachandra Pradhan. Village: Gatamaha, G.P. Bondaguda, block Nuagaon, District Kandhamal. We are cultivating green gram, mustard, and black gram as a second crop without irrigation, and we are also saving seeds.

— Sidheswar Nayak · Kandhamal, Odisha

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

The oldest seeds we have. Millet, foxtail millet, horse gram, green gram, lentils.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

Certainly, we cultivate a second crop in Shuneshwar Sachin and also follow traditional farming methods and seed protection. Our traditional foods include Mandia (Ragi) and Kangu (Foxtail millet), among others.

— jitendra khila · Lachery, Malkangiri, Odisha

My name is Ramesh Majhi. We cultivate millet, kodo, and arhar. These can be used as nutrition or for the PDS (Public Distribution System).

— Prabhasini Batkar · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

We conserve paddy seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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